etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell) (03/22/91)
I couldn't remember how to get mail to one of those darn ! paths, so I'll post this response to Mr Carlson's questions about su and DM fonts. In article <175@ladwp> you write: >At SR10.2 we were able to 'su new_user' and new_user's .kshrc or .profile, I'm >not sure which, would be run automatically. This changed with the installation >of 10.3 and we now laboriously type '. $HOME/.kshrc' to establish a usable >enviorment after we su. Is there something simple I'm missing? The man page >is of no help. Also, is it possible to give selected individuals rights to >su to root? If this is possible is it a good or bad idea? su - userid does a "full login," i.e. it changes to the home directory and sources .login or whatever. I think this behavior is supposed to be a feature. It allows you to become root and stay in a current directory of interest, or do a full login. Only members of group 0, wheel, should be able to su root. You can edit the members of the group in edrgy. As for the DM font, here's how I did it. More knowledgeable folk will supply details and corrections. The DM font load command is "fl /sys/dm/fonts/font_name," which sets the font *for subsequent windows*. The fonts are in /sys/dm/fonts, I think. If you issue this command during a session, it affects pads opened *after* the command. There's a DM startup file, `node_data/startup.xxx, where xxx is the display type. There you can also specify the size and postion of the DM i/o windows, I mean pads. 8-) Then you have to restart the DM to get it to read that file. "Exit" at the login prompt should bring you down to the phase II shell, then "go" will restart the DM. Or do a full reboot. If you put an "fl" command in /sys/dm/startup_login.xxx, the font will be used for user pads, but not for the DM windows (I think). I made some of these changes to some of my nodes a while back, but I don't remember all the details. Anyway, I hope some of this is helpful. -- Eric Bushnell Univ of Washington Civil Engineering etb@zeus.ce.washington.edu etb@milton.u.washington.edu