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From: jerry sutton <jerrys@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: Administrative gui apps fail in UW2
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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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