[comp.windows.x] Help with X on ATT SYSV

aj4640@dean1.usma.edu (Robertson John MAJ) (10/06/90)

When running client applications on an ATT box uner SYSV, the 
clients are looking for a file called Xconnections.  THis file
is supposed to have the server name, a node id, and a net id 
according to source code.  Might anyone know what values ought to 
be put in that file??

Thanks

Jack

randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown) (10/09/90)

>When running client applications on an ATT box uner SYSV, the 
>clients are looking for a file called Xconnections.  THis file
>is supposed to have the server name, a node id, and a net id 
>according to source code.  Might anyone know what values ought to 
>be put in that file??

Given that we have

/dev/tcpip
/usr/X/lib/net/tcpip/nameserver
/usr/X/lib/Xconnections
/usr/X/lib/xdaemon

our /usr/lib/X/Xconnections looks like

* * tcpip

which tells the client that for all displays on all nodes, open the
clone device /dev/tcpip and ask xdaemon for an address on net tcpip,
which it will do by exec'ing the nameserver in /usr/X/lib/net/tcpip.
If you have multiple nets (say Starlan and TCP/IP), the file is more
complicated, since you need to put in specific information saying which
displays are on which nodes, and which nets those nodes are on.  If you
have Interlan networking, try "it" in place of tcpip; for Wollongong,
use "tcp."