andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) (03/20/91)
Some of the quick reader may have read (before I cancelled the article: <1991Mar20.142203.682@resam.dk>) about my problems getting dbxtool (an OpenLook & SunView GUI frontend to dbx) up and running! Well the problem boiled down because suddenly I found out that when I use rlogin to log in on a remote site, I get the path defined in the login scripts on the remote workstation and it is not possible to get the path from the workstation that I'm physical located at. That's logical because the workstation I rlogin into may be something almost but not entirely unlike the SunSparc I'm looking at! BUT! When I start OpenWindows 2.0 (Sun's version of X) it changes my path so $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview become the first item in it! OK, because then I run the OpenWindows programs instead of SunView programs which is located in /usr/bin (!) BUT! When I rlogin to another workstation I get the path from the other workstation - WITHOUT $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview - i.e. I run the SunView versions in /usr/bin instead - which doesn't like to open windows on remote sites! HOW do I detect that I'm logged in from a remote site (I know that is cheating, but I need to put in the path again)? AND NO I can't put it in from the beginning - try it and you'll see the software fight of the century to the rights to own the screen! Any suggestions? Leif Andrew Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77 / Currently at Scandinavian Airline Systems =======/ UUCP: andrew@resam.dk, phone: +45 32 32 51 54 \ SAS, RESAM Project Office, CPHML-V, P.O.BOX 150, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark NOTICE: 'Cause of SendMail ConFiGuRation FaultS weee may experiienc ProBleeems wiiiiiiith our return add<zap> andrew@resam.dk whiccccch may BeCoMe sOmEthIng like <wheee>w@cph<click> !%#@# @$$%$%(&**&(^%$ $#%%^&)(&^T^%^%^^# login: