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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:54:42 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: xauth delay

Alain.Lachapelle@Heimannsystems.Com wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Since I've installed 1.43 this morning the xauth process when opening a
> shell goes through the end of a timeout, which takes about 20 seconds.
> This goes on for anything requesting a shell, such as a compile in emacs
> for instance.
>
> Granting PPR permission to connect X clients to display ":0.0".
> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /var/spool/ppr/run/Xauthority
> ppr-xgrant: PPR's xauth exit with code 1.
>
> So, I have renamed the /usr/lib/ppr/lib/login_ppr.sh since I do not use any X display.  Nevertheless, this timeout did niot happem with version 1.41.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alain

This is odd since I don't think ppr-xgrant has been changed.  The other odd thing is that /etc/profile.d/login_ppr.sh should be executed only for login
shells, not for shells spawned by applications.