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From: randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with X on ATT SYSV
Message-ID: <9010081828.AA22326@erik.uucp>
Date: 8 Oct 90 18:26:51 GMT
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>When running client applications on an ATT box uner SYSV, the 
>clients are looking for a file called Xconnections.  THis file
>is supposed to have the server name, a node id, and a net id 
>according to source code.  Might anyone know what values ought to 
>be put in that file??

Given that we have

/dev/tcpip
/usr/X/lib/net/tcpip/nameserver
/usr/X/lib/Xconnections
/usr/X/lib/xdaemon

our /usr/lib/X/Xconnections looks like

* * tcpip

which tells the client that for all displays on all nodes, open the
clone device /dev/tcpip and ask xdaemon for an address on net tcpip,
which it will do by exec'ing the nameserver in /usr/X/lib/net/tcpip.
If you have multiple nets (say Starlan and TCP/IP), the file is more
complicated, since you need to put in specific information saying which
displays are on which nodes, and which nets those nodes are on.  If you
have Interlan networking, try "it" in place of tcpip; for Wollongong,
use "tcp."