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From: dna@math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold)
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Subject: Remote cmdtools under OpenWindows?
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I have recently started using OpenWindows 2.0, and am having various
troubles.  I would like to open cmdtools running on various hosts from the
root menu, but have been having trouble doing so.  Here is a stripped down
set-up that shows the problem.  I start up OpenWindows on fredholm and
give the commands "xhost +green" and "rsh green ~/testscript" where
testscript reads:

  #!/bin/sh
  OPENWINHOME=/usr/local/lib/openwin
  export OPENWINHOME
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPENWINHOME/lib
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview/cmdtool -display fredholm:0.0

This causes a cmdtool to appear on fredholm, but no shell prompt appears
in it.  And on fredholm I get the message "ttysw-TIOCSPGRP: Interrupted
system call".

On the other hand if I rlogin to green and run ~/testscript it works fine
(a cmdtool window running csh pops up on fredholm).  Can anyone explain
this or point me to the appropriate documentation?

Douglas N. Arnold                         dna@math.psu.edu
Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ.    (814) 865-0246