[comp.emacs] Xwindows emacs on an IBM RT

galvin@yale.UUCP (Peter Galvin) (06/16/87)

Hi again.  My last problem was with getting Gnu to read mail on a 
Celerity.  Doing a SETUID root solved that, and thanks for the help.

My new problem is getting emacs-18.45 working on an IBM RT running 4.2.
I built one with xwindows turned off, and it seemed to run correctly.  I
just turned xwindows on, and no running src/xemacs causes the system
to access the disk quite a bit (as if it were starting up), but stopping
there.  No window trying to pop up or anything.  typing ctrl-C in the
startup window causes a "beep", and the only way to exit is ctrl-Z,stopping
the process.

Once again, any clues appreciated.

						--Pete

roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) (06/18/87)

In article <1581@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
-In article <12424@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> galvin@yale.UUCP (Peter Galvin) writes:
->Hi again.  My last problem was with getting Gnu to read mail on a 
->Celerity.  Doing a SETUID root solved that, and thanks for the help.
-
-Does anyone know WHY this setuid is needed?  Is there another way to fix
-this?  I hesitate to have my users run their _very_ powerful editor as
-"root"...

Oh, dopey me....

I just checked with Peter Galvin... it's etc/movemail that needs to run
setuid, NOT the editor itself...
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