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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X color maps and switching
Summary: Color by Technicolor, now YP contrariness
Message-ID: <580@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 89 06:01:40 GMT
References: <578@mmlai.UUCP> <101950043@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <101950043@hpcvlx.HP.COM>, kam@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Keith Marchington) writes:
> course, in time we should see hardware capable of supporting colormaps
> on a per-window basis which will reduce the amount of "technicolor"
> that we must put up with.

Thanks to all the HP gurus who have replied to my query.

Hmmm...  Time to get out my scissors and construction paper and make
a mask.  Neato!  I can finally get a tan while working on my computer! :-)

But seriously, multiple color maps are a great thing to throw on the
SuperchargerSRX upgrade wish list, along with enough overlay planes to
get see-thru plus all 256 colors so you really get 2 useable X screens.

Now if I can figure out why sendmail and the lp daemon-startup in /etc/rc
completely ignore YP references on my clients.  I was reading TFMs and
it said to remove all but the cluster host names from /etc/hosts.  When
I did this, sendmail lost track of all other nodes.  When I removed all
accounts from /etc/password except root and the YP "go-look-for-other-
stuff-in-the-YP-server" entry, the lp daemon complains that the lp
administrator isn't in the database(?)  If you have a complete hosts
table on the client, and put lp back into the clients' passwd file, the
problems go away.  This, however, defeats YP big time.  Everything else
works fine.  Systems (all have latest HP-UX versions):

   -------------------------------------------------------Net
         |                    |                  |
        835                  370                360
  (Master server)       (client root)    (client discless to 370)

If this were one of my own programs (or xbiff from the X contrib tape)
I'd recompile like the instructions in the manual said.  What's to do
when it's an HP-UX system source that needs this treatment?  I asked
the support center, but I guess I ask questions that are too hard, because
they take a couple months now-a-days to call back ;-)

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Martin Marietta Labs      * to run the kaleidoscope program...
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