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- From: gel@sys.uea.ac.uk (Gareth Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: dxsession beginner help??
- Message-ID: <gel.713814152@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:42:32 GMT
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- steve@sdz01.uu.ch writes:
-
-
- >I have four questions regarding DXsession. I have rtfm'd to no avail.
- >If these are naive questions, well, I've only been working with Ultrix
- >a few months.
-
- I don't have a solution but can offer some pointers. Your problems
- seem to be based around the :0 entry in your /etc/ttys file.
-
- >1. I have some users who should only be permitted to run a particular
- >program. Normally I would replace the shell program in /etc/passwd
- >with the permitted program. Unfortunately, after logging in through
- >the dxprompter, "something" apparently happens (no error or warning
- >message) and I am immediately returned to the login prompter. If I su
- >to the user from another account, everything works as planned, but
- >obviously that's not going to work.
-
- See point 3 below.
-
- >2. With every other workstation I've ever used, I could kill the
- >Xserver and work at a naked tty interface if I wanted to. So far I
- >have found no way, either in the manuals or through random keystrokes,
- >of doing this under Ultrix.
-
- I think that, when you kill dxsession or the X server init detects
- this and restarts them on the basis on the entry for :0 in the
- /etc/ttys file.
-
- >3. Can I run X on Ultrix without dxsession? I find the whole thing
- >annoying.
-
- You can change the /etc/ttys entry to run whatever you want (ie. another
- window manager). I'm not sure whether the DEC X server will operate
- without dxsession since it controls the icon box also?? You could consider
- using the standard MIT X11 release which is supplied in the unsupported
- subsets.
-
- It would be worth experimenting with replacing the -C /usr/bin/dxsession
- option with -C /usr/local/bin/myscript thereby invoking a shell script
- which selectively invokes dxsession or other applications on the basis
- of the $USER environment variable.
-
- >4. Can anyone point me to a usable replacement for dxdb?
-
- An easy question at last. Try ups (version 2.31) which seems to be
- distributed at most GNU sites. It has a better user interface and is
- certainly a good deal more robust. If you're prepared to pay then I
- believe DEC FUSE is good and contains lots of other tools.
-
- Gareth Lee.
- Speech and Pattern Processing Group,
- University of East Anglia,
- UK.
-