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From: jerry sutton <jerrys@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Administrative gui apps fail in UW2
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:12:49 -0600
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Jeff Dickens wrote:
>
> Hi. We recently installed a Unixware 2 system that we need for an
> integration project with a vendor that still uses UW2 exclusively. We
> designated one user the "system owner" during installation.
>
> However, when that user logs in at the console, under the gui (X), the
> administrative applications don't work. If you try to start one, for
> example the user manager or dialup setup, nothing happens. Apparently
> whatever script runs just fails silently.
>
> Does this sound like a common problem that you recognize ? If not where
> might I look for the log of this presumably failing script ?
>
> Thanks in advance...
I'm speaking imprecisely from memory since I haven't kept
a UW2 machine up for about a year.
Start by looking in either /tmp or /var/tmp for one of the
X11 logs, I believe it is Xerrors. See if it tells you why.
A common reason for UnixWare commands to suddenly stop
working is the enhanced security mechanism. If you have
used cpio, for example, to 'touch' a file which is
registered with the security database, executing that file
will abruptly exit. Read man pages on filepriv, initprivs,
the section 2 Intro. There is a script somewhere under
/etc/ia/security which will rebuild the tcb on the
presumption that security has NOT been breached. So you
might investigate this arena.
--
Jerry Sutton jerrys@airmail.net
and of course, I don't speak on behalf of my employer
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