15 Jul
2001
15 Jul
'01
9:18 a.m.
Bill,
I tried that. I navigated to /usr/openwin/bin/ and typed openwin at the #
prompt. The OS returned the message "openwin: not found"
:-( Ideas?
Thanks,
Drew
p.s. - I'm logged in as root if that makes a difference. I'd also like to
set up a seperate user account... I'm going to try to look around for a way
to set up a user account.
/usr/openwin/bin/openwin should work... if you
didn't install CDE.
CDE is usually on an additional CDROM IIRC... been a long time since
I've seen Solaris 2.4.
Bill
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15 Jul
15 Jul
9:58 a.m.
I tried that. I navigated to /usr/openwin/bin/ and
typed openwin at the #
prompt. The OS returned the message "openwin: not found"
Just for fun, what does 'startx' do on the system?
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10:15 a.m.
This is because root doesn't normally have /usr/openwin/bin in its path.
There are two things you will probably want to do in the .cshrc file or
.profile (depending on shell) set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include
/usr/openwin/lib and set path to include /usr/openwin/bin then type
openwin
at the prompt from the console and the system should pop into openwindows.
--Chuck
At 09:18 PM 7/15/01 +0000, you wrote:
Bill,
I tried that. I navigated to /usr/openwin/bin/ and typed openwin at the #
prompt. The OS returned the message "openwin: not found"
:-( Ideas?
Thanks,
Drew
p.s. - I'm logged in as root if that makes a difference. I'd also like to
set up a seperate user account... I'm going to try to look around for a
way to set up a user account.
/usr/openwin/bin/openwin should work... if you
didn't install CDE.
CDE is usually on an additional CDROM IIRC... been a long time since
I've seen Solaris 2.4.
Bill
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11:34 a.m.
--- Andrew Kershaw <cryhavoc_q(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Bill,
I tried that. I navigated to /usr/openwin/bin/ and typed openwin at the #
prompt. The OS returned the message "openwin: not found"
:-( Ideas?
As has been pointed out elsewhere, it's a path thing. The root account
typically does not have "." in the path, *on purpose*.
Even if you type "/usr/openwin/bin/openwin", you might find that the
rest of your environment is not set up for OpenWindows and/or X.
Go create a user account, try it there, if it still fails, you might have
a path problems with the libraries, etc.
-ethan
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16 Jul
16 Jul
3:56 a.m.
I tried that. I navigated to /usr/openwin/bin/ and
typed openwin at the #
prompt. The OS returned the message "openwin: not found"
"." isn't in your path, so the openwin executable isn't being found.
Even
if it were found, openwin expects /usr/openwin/bin to be in your path. I doubt
it would be able to find any of the other exectuables it needs to run.
First, I would suggest creating a user account and using that. Running as
root you'll blitz something eventually. csh is much nicer to use than sh
anyway. (I'd suggest installing tcsh or bash. They're orders of magnitude
better.)
Add /usr/openwin/bin to your PATH.
Add /usr/openwin/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Add /usr/openwin/lib/fonts to your FONTPATH
Add /usr/openwin/man to your MANPATH
Now, from your home directory, type openwin.
Eric
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