[comp.sys.apollo] Server Process Manager

YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET (10/06/89)

Re: Server Process Manager (SPM)

We've a DSP90 to which a vt100-compatible is connected. We can
log into the server node by typing SH to get a 'login' prompt and
enter the user-id and passwd.
The strange thing is that the login process seems different from
the normal one, eg /etc/profile is not executed at all. I wonder
any body knows why?

Another strange thing is that some of our accounts can log in but some
just get kicked out after the welcome message appears on the screen.
After a few experiments, I found out that those accounts with
/bin/sh or /com/sh as the startup shell will be accepted,
and those with /bin/ksh just get rejected by SPM.
Any body who knows how to solve the problem?

Is there any other documentation about SPM besides the one found
in the sysadmin manuals?
(We're running SR10.1 with default SYSTYPE=BSD4.3)

--AnnKian Yeo
  Email:  YEOAK%NUSDISCS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS)
  National University of Singapore (NUS)

YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET (10/11/89)

After having read the recent postings on "the deafeaning silence", I
repost my mail here. Hope that someone would help. BTW, this is my first
posting ever. I'd got a response for my second posting on SPM
thru' private mail. Thanks. Here you go....

1) We've a Seikosha dot-matrix printer connected to a SR10.1 node running
   BSD4.3. We used 'genicom' device driver in our prsvr configuration file.
   After having setup prsvr & prmgr, our text files can be printed on the
   Seikosha printer using prf, but almost every printed line is prefixed
   with 120e0m. (I presume it's genicom printer control code.) Right now
   we use 'prf -trans' to print our text files, that means we lost all the
   good features of prf such as -head, -banner & etc.
   Q: Is there a way to substitute the genicom control codes by other
      dot-matrix printer control codes? How?
   Q: Is there a generic device driver available for printing text file
      on a dot-matrix or line printer which has a serial/RS232 port?

2) I've tried to build a simple device driver by following the example
   shown in 5.1.2 of "Printing in the Aegis Environment". I encountered
   the following problem during bind:

   Unresolved globals:
      add_db_range_c     First referenced in driver_ex.bin
      add_db_value_c     ""
      get_db_value_c     ""
      inq_entry_c        ""
   Q: Where is the lib for there routines?

3) What is TML as mentioned in "Printing in the Aegis Environment"?

4) We've managed to set up lpd in a separate testing. We're able to get lpr
   to work w/o prsvr & prmgr. The problem is that the output is in double
   spacing. Any body knows how to fix it?

 Thanks for your helps in advance.


--AnnKian Yeo
  Email:  YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET
     or   YEOAK%NUSDISCS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS)
  National University of Singapore (NUS)

YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET (10/11/89)

The subject of my previous posting was wrong. It should have been
"Printer Driver (prsvr)". Apologize for the mistake.
--AnnKian Yeo
  Email: YEOAK%NUSDISCS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS)
  National University of Singapore (NUS)