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From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: problems starting xterm
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416096c61003210714i2468823aj67f2343e2122f4b4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19363.59652.432106.651720@yeti.mininet>

Markus Hoenicka:
>>>xterm: Could not exec 4.90.2.20040617: No such file or directory

> Jon TURNEY:
>> Google suggests '4.90.2.20040617' is a novell netware client version.
>
> Good catch. I use a Windoze client on a Netware network at work, so
> this client is likely to be installed. But then, why would xterm try
> to run that client???

Actually it's trying to invoke that client's version number as a
program, which is even more weird. There are only three places that
could come from: the SHELL environment variable, the /etc/passwd file,
and a -e option on xterm's command line.

Andy

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-21 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-19  9:54 Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 13:06 ` Reid Thompson
2010-03-19 13:09   ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 13:55     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-03-19 14:06       ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 15:40         ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 15:46           ` Ken Brown
2010-03-19 21:13             ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-21 13:54             ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-19 16:35 ` Jon TURNEY
2010-03-19 21:12   ` Markus Hoenicka
2010-03-21 14:14     ` Andy Koppe [this message]

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