gillies@noao.edu (Kim Gillies X246) (10/12/89)
I am working on a Sun that currently gets its fonts and client binaries
from a disk on our network. I am trying to make it a standalone system
with all binaries and fonts (and whatever else is required) local but
I am having some problems.
The problem is I can't convince the server to look in the new local location
when it is initially launched. It continues to look for the rgb database on
the remote system (the place it was built) no matter what I do and the
font path always remains the path of the remote disk.
So what I have to do is change the default font path for the server
permanently? Hopefully, I won't have to recompile anything. This computer
must move to a remote site not on this network and it doesn't
have the disk space for the entire source tree.
I don't use Xdm. Things are started with xinit and startup files.
Changing the path with xset in the xinit initialization file works after
things have started from the remote disk. Passing the font path to the
server as xinit arguments doesn't seem to work (for me) either.
I am running X Window System R3 with 10 patches and purdue speedups
on a Sun 3/80. Please tell me what I'm doing wrong!
Please reply in private e-mail. Thanks.
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Kim Gillies, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ
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Phonenet: 6023259246rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (10/12/89)
So what I have to do is change the default font path for the server
permanently?
"Permanent", you can define DefaultFontPath and DefaultRGBDatabase (e.g. in
your site.def or Sun.macros) and rebuild your server.
Otherwise, you can use the -fp and -co options to the server, they should
work.