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telnet autolgin linux sco

From: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
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Subject: Re: Telnet Auto Login
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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 02:25:37 GMT


"Serge Bromow" <serge@omensys.com> wrote in message
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> "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com> wrote in message
> news:1oKu7.31596$c8.4606063@news1.rdc1.nj.home.com...
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> >
> > "Serge Bromow" <serge@omensys.com> wrote in message
> > news:32814c10676910f9ec70a175a42e4b5b.13902@mygate.mailgate.org...
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> Thanks Brian.
>
> Setting the DISPLAY variable did the trick.
> As you suggested, a small script to init the
> variable and launch the appplication got the
> system up and running.
>
> Serge

I just thought of a better script to put on the unix box than the one I
posted before.

on the unix box, in some public path like /usr/local/bin:
vi /usr/local/bin/xrsh

#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY="$1" ; export DISPLAY ; shift
exec "$@"


on the linux box in the window manager, configure a button with this
command:

rsh unixbox xrsh thislinuxbox:0 yourapp -opt -opt -opt...

example: how about a sco utils menu...
unix box hostname is gillespe, and this goes in the window manager on the
linux box named phlebotomy:
rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/scoterm
rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/xterm
rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/scohelp
rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/scoadmin
rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/scopaint
rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/scoedit

this way,
* you only have one single script on the unix box
* it can be used by all the linux boxes at once
* and it can be used to run any program on the unix box.
* you can install the same script on more/other unix boxes without changing
it every time.

you could even define something like this command in your linux box
~/.xinitrc and start up X with the SCO desktop instead of the linux desktop.
(this might not be exactly correct, as I can't test it this minute, but I
have done this before, manually. using rsh and sticking it right in .xinitrc
is just another twist on something that I do know works.

rsh gillespe /usr/local/bin/xrsh phlebotomy:0 /usr/bin/X11/xdt3

Another favorite tool of mine for displaying remote sco x destops and apps
on local linux boxes is xnest.
I happen to have a linux box, with X installed for a nat router for my
office. if I need to run internet configuration manager on some customers
sco box, I start xnest on the router with it's display set to the linux box
at my desk. I then start scoadmin on the remote sco box with *it's* display
set for the xnest that is running on my router. End result, I have a window
on my regular linux x desktop, and in that window is a full sco desktop, or
a blank X background and some bare x apps running on the remote sco box.

too cool

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