Tom, I have both Solaris 8 (sparc) and Solaris 9 (sparc) setup with inetd and the VNC connections work just fine on Solaris 9 but not on Solaris 8.
After running both Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 dtlogin in debug mode and comparing what worked (solaris 9) and what doesn't (solaris 8) I was no closer to the answer. This is a comparison of the sizes of the two modules: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 181532 Feb 17 07:45 dtlogin (sol8) -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 185396 Feb 17 13:36 dtlogin (sol9) Notice that the dtlogin module from Solaris 9 media is about 4K larger. I backed up the Solaris 8 version of dtlogin and then used the dtlogin from Solaris 9 on my Solaris 8 system. Both versions of dtlogin had all outstanding patches applied. Now when connecting via VNC on Solaris 8, I could successfully login to a CDE, OpenWindows or Failsafe Session. For some reason the extra code in the Solaris 9 dtlogin module will handle whatever is occurring and causing the Solaris 8 module to terminate. I realize that this is a workaround and not an answer. You may not have access to Solaris 9 or may not feel comfortable implementing a work-around such as this. I thought I would post my observations since they may help someone else with finding out what the real problem is. Chuck _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
