XANSWER(1) X Version 11 (25 October 1988) XANSWER(1)
NAME
xanswer - daemon to start X terminal sessions
SYNOPSIS
xanswer [-p port_number] ["command format string"]
DESCRIPTION
xanswer is run as a daemon which listens for connection
requests from Locus PC Xsight servers. Specifically, the
XCALL program that is provided with PC Xsight sends a
display name to xanswer which in turn starts an X session
for the PC. Normally, lccdm or xdm is started to provide
login authentication and session control, but xanswer
provides the flexibility to start other session managers.
xanswer must be run as root and should be started from init.
OPTIONS
The -p option may be used to specify a TCP port that xanswer
will listen on. The default is port 7000 which matches the
default port for XCALL. It is possible to start several
copies of xanswer, each listening on a different port and
with a different session command to provide a choice of
session managers.
The "command format string" argument is a command that will
be executed by /bin/sh whenever a session request is
received. (A process can be saved by making it an exec
command.) The command format should contain a %s, which will
be replaced by the display name of the requesting PC Xsight
server. The default value for the command format string is
"xdm -server \"%s transient xanswer\"".
SEE ALSO
xdm(1), lccdm(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1989, Locus Computing Corporation. All Rights
Reserved.
AUTHOR
Locus Computing Corporation
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