easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Jeff Easton) (01/17/91)
OK, here's a question for all you novell.net.experts... I am setting up a Novell 2.15c network for a department at the local University. Since many of the people using it are computer illiterate, I set up the Novell Menu utility to run automatically at login time via the EXIT "MENU xxx" command in the system login script. One of the menu choices is Logout. The manuals infer that the Logout command be preceeded by a exclamation mark, ie, !LOGOUT to allow the menu command to close and delete its batch files before pulling the rug out from under itself. The problem is that this version of the menu program (v1.23) does not interpet the ! prefix and passes the whole thing to the command line where is fails (because there is no !LOGOUT command). I have this setup on a older version of netware (v2.15) with a menu version of 1.22 and it runs as advertised. Is there a new prefix that must be used for the newer Netware? Of course, if I delete the exclamation mark, then when the user logs out, the menu does send the proper command and the user is logged out. But then weird things usually happen, like computer lockups. For reference, the workstations are a mix of ZDS computers running MS-DOS 4.01 and 3.3+. Any ideas? -- Jeff Easton Zenith Data Systems Systems Engineer OEM Engineering easton@andrews.edu Witty Quote: I break for Otters
kenh@techbook.com (Ken Haynes) (01/18/91)
In article <664046861wkn21304@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Jeff Easton) writes: > >command be preceeded by a exclamation mark, ie, !LOGOUT to allow the >menu command to close and delete its batch files before pulling the rug >out from under itself. > > The problem is that this version of the menu program (v1.23) does not > interpet the ! prefix and passes the whole thing to the command line > where is fails (because there is no !LOGOUT command). > > I have this setup on a older version of netware (v2.15) with a menu >version of 1.22 and it runs as advertised. Is there a new prefix that >must be used for the newer Netware? > > Any ideas? There is a reported bug in the Menu.exe file that ships with V3.1 of NW. Copy the MENU.ZIP file from library 6 of the Netwire forums on Compuserve. Replace the MENUPARZ file and the problem should go away. You will be running a version of menu.exe that is version 1.23 and a version of menuparz.exe that is version 1.22. This will NOT solve another problem with use of the logout command from a batch file called from the menu. KEN -- ****************************************************************************** Network Support Services: Ken Haynes, Certified Netware Engineer
ckinsman@eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman - EE major) (01/18/91)
In article <664046861wkn21304@edmund.cs.andrews.edu> easton@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Jeff Easton) writes: > One of the menu choices is Logout. The manuals infer that the Logout >command be preceeded by a exclamation mark, ie, !LOGOUT to allow the >menu command to close and delete its batch files before pulling the rug >out from under itself. > > The problem is that this version of the menu program (v1.23) does not > interpet the ! prefix and passes the whole thing to the command line > where is fails (because there is no !LOGOUT command). > > I have this setup on a older version of netware (v2.15) with a menu >version of 1.22 and it runs as advertised. Is there a new prefix that >must be used for the newer Netware? > I picked up on CIS that this version of Menu for some reason left this command out. They have an updated version on Netwire I believe. Chris