xfs.options - configuration options for X font server
DESCRIPTION
/etc/X11/xfs-xtt/xfs-xtt.options
contains a set of flags that determine some of the behavior of the X font
server
xfs(1).
/etc/X11/xfs-xtt/xfs-xtt.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. If an option is present with the "no-" prefix,
or absent, it is disabled, otherwise it is considered enabled.
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-xtt in memory). If this option is disabled (the
Debian default), xfs will be not be stopped or started during an install or
upgrade; the administrator will have to do so by hand (with
"/etc/init.d/xfs-xtt restart", or by rebooting the system) before the newly
installed xfs-xtt binary is used.