hobbes@portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Zimmerman) (10/05/89)
What is the correct entry in /etc/inittab to automatically start the X server on a Sys V machine? The machine is an intel 386 machine running AT&T Sys V. Currently, X will run on the machine with an xinit command, but we are having problems figuring out the correct entry for the inittab. All of the documentation and experience we have is for X on bsd with a /etc/ttys file. Thanks for any help. Andrew Zimmerman zimmer@umunhum.stanford.edu
gary@dgcad.SV.DG.COM (Gary Bridgewater) (10/07/89)
In article <5561@portia.Stanford.EDU> hobbes@portia.Stanford.EDU (Andrew Zimmerman) writes: >What is the correct entry in /etc/inittab to automatically start the >X server on a Sys V machine? I don't know about correct but the Consortium seems to be pushing xdm. We have a heterogenous environment here with programmers and non-programmers and teaching the latter all the mysteries of the temple is a daunting task. So I spent an afternoon getting xdm to work on our (AViiON - SysV) environment. I will go after Sun next. The way I got it to work was to modify inittab like this: con:012:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty console console X:34:once:/var/adm/xdm.run So that I get a vanilla console at any level below 3 and X for 3 or 4. Note the "once". Using "respawn" brings on the X-Servers-From-Hell syndrome. and xdm.run is: #!/bin/csh source /etc/TIMEZONE.csh set MGR=/usr/bin/X11/xdm set MESS=/var/xdm/X0msgs cp /dev/null ${MESS} sleep 4 if ( -x ${MGR} ) then exec ${MGR} -config /var/adm/xdm.config else echo "`date` - Cannot find ${MGR}" >> ${MESS} exec /usr/sbin/getty console console endif which you hack to work around the pecadillos of Your OS. then xdm.config looks like this: DisplayManager.servers: :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 DisplayManager*resources: /var/adm/xdm.resources DisplayManager.0.userPath: :/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/hosts:/usr/global/bin DisplayManager.0.systemPath: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:/usr/hosts:/usr/global/bin DisplayManager.0.systemShell: /bin/sh DisplayManager.0.session: /var/adm/xdm.Xsession DisplayManager.0.openDelay: 5 DisplayManager.0.openTimeout: 60 DisplayManager.0.terminateServer: true again, this represents my preferences. Salt to taste. xdm.resources is pretty familiar: xlogin*foreground: white xlogin*background: black xlogin*promptFont: 9x15 xlogin*failFont: 9x15 xlogin*greetFont: 9x15 xlogin*nameFont: 9x15 xlogin*passwdFont: 9x15 xlogin*font: 9x15 xlogin*greeting: Something sppropriate here.. xlogin*greetColor: white xlogin*namePrompt: Who are you?_ xlogin*passwdPrompt: Prove it : xlogin*promptColor: white xlogin*fail: I doubt it. xlogin*failColor: white xlogin*failTimeout: 60 xlogin*borderColor: white xlogin*borderWidth: 10 xterm*ActiveIcon: off xterm*blahBlahBlah ... ... rest of the xterm stuff you want to specify ... But the key here is that you pre-specify an xterm so the novice user gets some nice (BIG) generic window and a bunch of generic menu pushes. I won't reproduce my xdm.Xsession since it is pretty much right out of the man page. I added some stuff to look for alternate user preference files. By default it looks for a .xsession file in the users $HOME. This file is more or less just what a .xinitrc file would be if you put everything in it that you specify on the xinit command line ( start a uwm, xrdb, xset, clock, Console flavor xterm, etc.). If no .xsession is found then xdm.Xsession cranks up uwm and an xterm using the above defaults. If you do all this you get an X login and a generic, default xterm for everyone so they don't have to learn the immense amount of drek involved in becoming an Xconsole commander. As they learn, they can start building their .xsession, .uwmrc, .Xdefaults and on and on and on and on ... An added benefit, for those who know what I mean, is that this resets the console to a good, know, totally erased state with just the X background and a login window. -- Gary Bridgewater, Data General Corp., Sunnyvale Ca. gary@sv4.ceo.sv.dg.com or {amdahl,aeras,amdcad,mas1,matra3}!dgcad.SV.DG.COM!gary No good deed goes unpunished.