dna@math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) (09/11/90)
I have recently started using OpenWindows 2.0, and am having various troubles. I would like to open cmdtools running on various hosts from the root menu, but have been having trouble doing so. Here is a stripped down set-up that shows the problem. I start up OpenWindows on fredholm and give the commands "xhost +green" and "rsh green ~/testscript" where testscript reads: #!/bin/sh OPENWINHOME=/usr/local/lib/openwin export OPENWINHOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPENWINHOME/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview/cmdtool -display fredholm:0.0 This causes a cmdtool to appear on fredholm, but no shell prompt appears in it. And on fredholm I get the message "ttysw-TIOCSPGRP: Interrupted system call". On the other hand if I rlogin to green and run ~/testscript it works fine (a cmdtool window running csh pops up on fredholm). Can anyone explain this or point me to the appropriate documentation? Douglas N. Arnold dna@math.psu.edu Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. (814) 865-0246
mikef@sarah.lerc.nasa.gov (Mike J. Fuller) (11/04/90)
In article <1990Oct7.235810.9886@rice.edu> dna@math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) writes: >I have recently started using OpenWindows 2.0, and am having various >troubles. I would like to open cmdtools running on various hosts from the >root menu, but have been having trouble doing so. Here is a stripped down >set-up that shows the problem. I start up OpenWindows on fredholm and >give the commands "xhost +green" and "rsh green ~/testscript" where >testscript reads: > > #!/bin/sh > OPENWINHOME=/usr/local/lib/openwin > export OPENWINHOME > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPENWINHOME/lib > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH > $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview/cmdtool -display fredholm:0.0 My guess is that you are running 4.1 of SunOS. Make that last line: /usr/etc/setsid -b $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview/cmdtool -display fredholm:0.0 <flame on; deep breath> I find this bug appalling. It is bad enough that {shell,cmd}tool doesn't even offer a decent terminal emulation, but when it just plain doesn't work like it is supposed to I begin to wonder if the people at Sun in the OpenWindows development group are still running 4.0.3 or if they just don't test their software. I discovered this bug the very first day we got OpenWindows 2.0! Personally, I use the colorxterm from the X11R4 contrib software on expo.lcs.mit.edu because it is faster and fairly bug free, it provides useful terminal emulations, and it handles the scroll bar better. <flame off; run for cover> Mike J. Fuller | Internet: mikef@sarah.lerc.nasa.gov | "I hate | ---------------| mikef@zippysun.math.uakron.edu | quotations." | \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\| Bitnet: r3mjf1@akronvm | -- R.W. Emerson |