Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!fauern!NewsServ!k2 From: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: Patches to RISC/OS 4.5 for MIT X11R4 Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 13:42:25 GMT References: <1991Feb15.211308.27835@convex.com> <1991Feb18.222802.2669@cs.ubc.ca> Sender: news@newsserv.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 24 pphillip@cs.ubc.ca (Peter Phillips) writes: >We've been using the libraries and clients from X11R4 on our R3260 >under RiscOS 4.51 for quite some time now but have run into a small >problem with xterm. >If an xterm is started from a login which has no controlling tty (like >from /usr/ucb/rsh) then the xterm will not get a controlling tty. The >lack of a controlling tty breaks programs like "su" and "script". >This problem doesn't occur under other UNIX machines running X11R4 nor >does it occur using xterm from RiscWindows 3.21. I'm also running into this problem, I'm very very interested in a solution. I have no idea, why this happened. Sincerely, Klaus Steinberger -- Klaus Steinberger Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen Phone: (+49 89)3209 4287 Hochschulgelaende FAX: (+49 89)3209 4280 D-8046 Garching, Germany BITNET: K2@DGABLG5P Internet: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com