Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MAHENDO.JPL.NASA.GOV!earle From: earle@MAHENDO.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Non-dying psterm's for non-root users? ; screen dumps Message-ID: <8712011210.AA02315@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 13:37:05 EST Article-I.D.: mahendo.8712011210.AA02315 Posted: Tue Dec 1 13:37:05 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 22:13:17 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 36 Ever since I got NeWS, I'd been using it as `root'. Then someone badgered me to show them how to use NeWS, so I logged in as them, did my little alias trick (set the environment, run the server, and do a clear_colormap afterwords to clean up the garbage), and away we went. First thing I discover is that psterms don't go away when the shell inside is exited! The shell goes away (window blanks if one does a `Redisplay'), but the psterm window stays around (it goes away as root). You have to manually `Zap' the window, and I discovered if you accidentally do this to the Console psterm, when you exit NeWS the console hangs (can't get back to login shell). Remotely killing the psterms still lying around causes the login shell to die as well! This seems like a permissions problem of some sort, but I tried the various combinations of setuid for the server and psterm, all to no avail. I certainly don't recall seeing this in the manuals anywhere (I installed the one binary patch), so I'm completely at a loss ... Whilest on the subject of screen dumps, does anyone have a general method for doing them (under SunView, NeWS, or X)? I wrote a shell script called `dumpscreen' that would do `screendump', pass it to `rasfilter8to1' (anyone notice that the 3.4 version of this does not match the manual page? Try the `choose dithering' option) if `/dev/cgtwo0' exists, then pass it to the TranScript `pssun' with various option tweaks to get it almost full size (and Landscape) on a LaserWriter. On the color machines, it becomes hit or miss whether the end product will be correct, and this has happened under all three window systems. Sometimes the symptoms are a `censored' all-black bar (or bars) across certain parts of the output; other times in addition to the above I get little replicated squished versions of the whole screen peppered across the top of the `normal' screendump (along with the `censored' bars). Once in a while it works totally normally, but more often than not it doesn't. This isn't really a NeWS question, but since it happens under NeWS, and involves screen dumping to a PostScript filter, it's tangentially relevant ... (I hope (-: ) Greg Earle earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV Gainfully unemployed earle%mahendo@jpl-elroy.ARPA [aka:] earle%mahendo@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV Los Angeles, CA ...!cit-vax!elroy!jplgodo!mahendo!earle