Is XDMCP necessary to run on a rp7410 server?

[John Goetz]

What type of application would use X Windows?

[Eric Antunes · Accepted solution]

Reflection needs XDMCP running.

Installing Oracle 8i or later needs X Windows... If you use an Ignite server, you'll be more confortable with X Windows...

Regards,

Eric Antunes

[Sundar_7]

Also there are some applications for which there is no alternative but to use
X-Windows.

For example,Legato Networker - there is no command line equivalent for nwadmin

[David Child_1]

Unless I'm mistaken you don't need this running for Legato or Oracle. XDMCP needs to be running if you want to allow remote X servers to start login sessions on your system. If its not running you still should be able to export your display and fire up GUI applications.

For Oracle use 'xvfb'.

I usually disable letting anyone start up CDE login sessions on my production systems. They have utility servers they can do that on and then telnet to the appropriate server to do any required work.

David

[Steven E. Protter]

xvfb will run fine without XDMCP running. It provides a local server for oracle reports for servers that don't have a graphics card.

Any X application, omniback/data protector will need XDMCP and /etc/rc.config.d/xfs enabled to run properly.

SEP

[Zygmunt Krawczyk]

Hi John,

XDMCP is default protocol built in dtlogin, and is necessary to run full CDE session from remote X servers. dtlogin is started on every HP-UX by default. Check it

ps -e|grep dtlogin

If you don't have dtlogin running, check in the file /etc/rc.config.d/desktop the line

DESKTOP=CDE