Hi Sun Managers,
The original question was:
> It's my first question on this list.
>Recently we have got SS10/41 with Solaris 2.2. At our site people
>used to log into systems using xdm, so we tried to use it on our
>new sparc. But we failed.
>
>When we use xdm which comes with OpenWindows 3.2 we get each second
>time server restarted (DisplayManager*terminateServer value doesn't
>matter) and each fourth time xnews server killed. (BTW xdm reads by
>default /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/xdm as a config file)
>
> After the experience with Sun's xdm we compiled MIT version of xdm.
>It was compiled almost without errors (with and without XDMCP) but
>we couldn't get it to work either.
>
>Has anyone out there succeded in geting xdm to work under Solaris 2.2?
>Is there any bug in xdm or in xnews?
>If yes please let me know what I'am doing wrong or what I should do.
>Any help will be appreciated and of course I will summarize.
The server dying and xdm dying bugs are known to Sun.
The common opinion about xdm which comes with OpenWin 3.2 is that there
is no chance to get it to work properly. The error is in the xdm, not in
xnews server. A few people in the net compiled MIT xdm and it works fine.
The very good solution is from Richard Elling. Here is what he wrote:
> If you want to experiment with my Solaris 2.x XDM setup, you can
> ftp it in package format from ftp.eng.auburn.edu in the pub/xdm
> directory. It includes a new xdm executable compiled from the X11R5
> distribution that will easily replace the OpenWindows 3.2 version.
> The package name is AUxdm.
I agree, it's easy to install and it works fine.
Staticly linked version of xdm is also available from Fabrice Cuq.
It can be obtained from yosemite.atmos.ucla.edu (anonymous ftp)
as /pub/xdm.static.
Fabrice also said that Sun just issued two patches for xdm, but I don't
know their numbers.
Edsel Adap uses ncdware 3.0 package instead of the original one.
> I am using the XDM that came with our ncdware 3.0 package. It works
> fine although it gave us initially random core dumps and killed the xdm
> sessions. But after applying some patch, it seems to be stable now.
Thanks to all who reponded:
Steve Scott sgs@hogpa.att.com
Steven M Rezsutek <S.Rezsutek@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Richard Elling <Richard.Elling@eng.auburn.edu>
fabrice@cisk.ATMOS.Ucla.EDU (Fabrice Cuq)
rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle Wizard of Ozje)
adap@isengard.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
-- Mirek Nazaruk e-mail: mirnaz@appli.mimuw.edu.pl
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