In a recent note, John R. Grout said: > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:00:59 -0400 > > Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >xterm is available from: > > ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.tar.gz > > Note that a sysprog must install this because > xterm must be setuid root to use USS terminal > resources. Our sysprog installed this port > Not in my experience. When I run the above xterm as a non-superuser the only failure is of an attempt to update the utmp data base. Xterm ignores this and operates regardless as a terminal emulator, but certain functions such as "who" produce incorrect results.
I may have (I don't recall) have hacked it to make the utmp failure nonfatal, but I believe not. Other OSs have a hack whereby if the utmp services are called by a non-superuser, they invoke a su program to perform the operation. OS/390 had not. I attempted to report this deficiency as a bug; IBM support was not much affected. Caveat: We're a development and test shop; we may generally have privileges beyond the mode for a production shop. But is there a PARMLIB or RACF option controlling the ability of general users to use PTY services which our sysprog may have toggled? > but removed it after noticing that it was a > resource hog. > > There are useful workarounds for z/OS xterm. > If you have a full blown X Windows server > on your desktop, it has its own xterms. You > No, xterm is a client, not generally to be found as a function of a server. Some (commercial) products may bundle both clients and server, but absence of clients does not mean a server as such is not "full blown". > can add USS host(s) with "xhost +" commands > on your server, rlogin to USS from its xterms > and set DISPLAY to the IP address and window > number of your X server. > I'm confused. On which system do you set DISPLAY and run the xterm client? It would seem to be the USS system, yet you advance this as an alternative in the absence of a USS xterm client. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
