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- From: alb@moose.uvm.edu (Allan L. Bazinet)
- Subject: Re: Can't get xdm to work - help wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.175651.9341@uvm.edu>
- Keywords: xdm
- Sender: news@uvm.edu
- Organization: University of Vermont
- References: <alb.24.716133148@uvm.edu> <1992Sep10.181826.21305@schbbs.mot.com> <1992Sep10.213202.638@uts.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Sep11.100238.8458@newsroom.bsc.no>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:56:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.100238.8458@newsroom.bsc.no>, robmack@bsc.no (Rob MacKinnon) writes:
- |> When logging in, use the F1 key in place of the enter key. You'll be placed
- |> into a single xterm where you can examine the xdm-errors file.
-
- Thanks for the tip; this helped to solve the problem.
-
- For the archives, the solution was to prepend the complete path to
- both mwm and aixterm. It seems that xdm somehow burns the path,
- perhaps for anti-trojan purposes. With both mwm and aixterm now able
- to be found, things are working fine.
-
- Onion-of-the-month award to the Austin X folks, whose response was that
- 'most problems encountered are due to configuration errors' (yeah, like
- IBM's default configuration) and that xdm was 'just something that we
- cobbed from MIT' (like X itself?!?) and that 'we don't really support it'
- (so what is is doing on the 3.2 tape?).
-
- Thanks to all who responded.
-
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- Allan L. Bazinet, University of Vermont.
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