juo@cloud9.Stratus.COM (John Oleynick) (07/29/89)
Thanks to all who responded to my questions. I'll see if I get used to the menus after awhile. The startup problem turned out to be because I misspelled cwm.startup (I capitalized the S, and wasn't supposed to, or I didn't capitalize it, but was supposed to; I forget which, and I am at home on a different system, so I can't check now). Now for another question, how to I get the console to monitor the load average and everything? Initially it said something about not being able to read /dev/kmem. I tried a few things, and ended up having root own getstats, with the setuid and setgid bits set. I set the group of getstats to be kmem (I'm not sure if this is right, I just did it because that was the group of w). I even did a chmod a+r of /dev/kmem, and the 2 other mem devices in /dev, whose names escape me now (yes, a security hole, but I don't think anyone here who doesn't already have root access could take advantage of it). After all this, console said it read an EOF from getstats, but still didn't display the load average or anything else. Did I miss setting something? Maybe is this related to the fact that my machine is a diskless client? Oh, one more question. Are the title bars on the windows supposed to display the machine's hostname on the right side? I seem to remember seeing a reference to this somewhere in all the documentation I've been scanning the past few days. Andrew doesn't display the hostname on the title bars, and I'm wondering if maybe it was because whoever told me that we have a domain name server was wrong, and I shouldn't have compiled Andrew with that option, or if I just have a bad memory, and Andrew isn't supposed to display the hostname in the title bar. Well, in 2 and a half days, all I've really used so far has just been cwm, console and help, but it sure is nice. Now if I can just stop playing around creating consoles, I can get back to work... Thanks again, John John Oleynick juo@cloud9.stratus.com ..!harvard!cloud9!juo