dt login prblm

[David Bellamy]

hi all,

i have a login problem to cde whenever i source
an optivity(nortel) environment script. no problem when i dont. any ideas?

thx in advance

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

type
env > file1
before you source it
then
env > file2
after you source it

then diff file1 file2
to find out the changes it makes

You want to watch out for changes in DISPLAY in particular

Later,
Bill

[Filip Luks]

Thanks,
I did try it and I see no change in DISPLAY.

[Shannon Petry]

You need to find out which environment variable is changing when running the script.
First, before running the script do this...
touch $HOME/good_env.txt
set >>$HOME/good_env.txt
printenv >>$HOME/good_env.txt

Next, dump the bad environment...
. nortel_script
touch $HOME/bad_env.txt
set >>$HOME/bad_env.txt
printenv >>$HOME/bad_env.txt

look at the differences between the two files, and find the overlapping variable. There are many things that can mess with the login, such as.... HOSTNAME, LOGNAME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, SHLIB_PATH, DISPLAY, HOME, and more.

Regards,
Shannon

[Wodisch]

Hello David,

I guess you do have a problem with X-Windows
config variables, so check the output of your "env"
commands for variables in upper-case starting with "X".
Post the outputs of those "env" commands, if you cannot
find the differences...
AND it could be the script is using "xrdb" to "-load" or
"-merge" some variables, which would cause your
problems... Then we would be interested in the outputs
of "xrdb -query" before and after executing that script!

HTH,
Wodisch