xfs.options(5) configuration options for the X font server

DESCRIPTION

/etc/X11/fs/xfs.options contains a set of flags that determine some of the behavior of the X font server xfs(1).

/etc/X11/fs/xfs.options may contain comments, which begin with a hash mark ('#') and end at the next newline, just like comments in shell scripts. The rest of the file consists of options which are expressed as words separated by hyphens, with only one option per line. Options are enabled by simply placing them in the file; they are disabled by prefixing the option name with 'no-'.

Available options are:

restart-on-upgrade
Enable this option with caution on 'production' machines; it causes the xfs daemon to be stopped and restarted on upgrade. This will break all existing connections by X servers to the font server, and as a result may deprive them of access to fonts. In some situations this could be an unwelcome surprise (for instance, for remote xfs users who had no idea the administrator was performing system maintenance). On the other hand, for machines that stay up for long periods of time, leaving the old daemon running can be a bad idea if the new version has, for instance, a fix for a security vulnerability (overwriting xfs's executable on the file system has no effect on the copy of xfs in memory). This behavior is disabled by default: xfs will be not be stopped or started during an upgrade of its package; the administrator will have to do so by hand (with invoke-rc.d xfs restart or by rebooting the system) before the newly installed xfs binary is used.

Since no options are enabled by default, /etc/X11/fs/xfs.options is not created automatically.

AUTHOR

Branden Robinson customized xfs's package maintainer scripts to implement the functionality described above.