x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-29 Thread Bruce Baxter
Is anyone running X windows applications off a z/OS USS host? I'm well familiar with how to do this on an AIX or Linux host, but haven't discerned how to do this on z/OS USS. Can someone point me at some practical information on what software needs to be installed on the z/OS USS host to at t

Re: x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-29 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Baxter > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:49 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: x terminal from a z/OS USS host > > > Is anyone running X windows

Re: x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Bruce Baxter said: > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:49:12 -0400 > > Is anyone running X windows applications off a z/OS USS host? I'm well > familiar with how to do this on an AIX or Linux host, but haven't > discerned how to do this on z/OS USS. Can someone point me at som

Re: x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-29 Thread McKown, John
Change the script to be: if tty -s; then set . $(ps -o args -p $PPID) case "$3" in *telnet*) DISPLAY="$5";; *rlogin*) DISPLAY="$8";; *) DISPLAY="None";; esac DISPLAY="$DISPLAY:0" if [ "$DISPLAY" = "None:0" ] then

Re: x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-29 Thread John R. Grout
Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >xterm is available from: > >ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.tar.gz Note that a sysprog must install this because xterm must be setuid root to use USS terminal resources. Our sysprog installed this port but removed it after noticing that it w

Re: x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, John R. Grout said: > Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:00:59 -0400 > > Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >xterm is available from: > >ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.tar.gz > > Note that a sysprog must install this because > xterm must be setuid root to u

Re: x terminal from a z/OS USS host

2006-06-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/29/2006 at 04:49 PM, Bruce Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Is anyone running X windows applications off a z/OS USS host? I doubt it, but someone is almost certainly running an X-client[1] on z/OS Unix. >to at the very least execute an xterm Isn't there an xt