Article 172546 of comp.os.vms: In article <33AE771A.3334@iName.com>, Christof Zeile writes: >Now, the simple question is: How do I get the login screen on the >Linux PC / X Terminal? Do I have to upgrade one of the software >components involved (Motif, VMS)? I'm not sure you really want to do this. If you start up an Xwindow on one of the PCs and get out of the session manager with "End Session" you will get a standard DECwindows login screen back up on that PC. The problem is, people tend to reboot PCs, or use the X11 on them to connect to other places, and in either case, that lingering login screen ends up being a problem. So, first things first, for anybody who is going to use X11 remotely you want to modify their session manager so it has QUIT (from FileView, I think) and no "end session". Beyond that, we use a home grown DCL procedure to start X11 sessions, select the right .VUE$DAT file, and modmap the keyboard as appropriate. It is invoked via an RSH or REXEC call from the X11 server. (Note, you must define SERVERCONFIG as a system wide logical that points to the directory where it lives.) I've also got an experimental console time limiter (ie, log out X11 session after N idle minutes) - if you want to use it you must start it automatically with the session manager (and, of course, you must start the session manager!). You can pick up this package and modify it for your own needs from: http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu:8000/pub/SOFTWARE/SERVERCONFIG.ZIP (It works for us, but use at your own risk!) Note, in serverconfig.com there is a call to sylogin.com with a "JAM" parameter. Basically, it is there because this is such an odd way to login/ start up sylogin.com that it is useful to just tell sylogin.com how to proceed, here are the first few lines of that file to show what "JAM does": $ verify = 'F$verify(0) $ if ("''P1'" .eqs. "JAM")then goto JAM $ IF F$MODE() .EQS. "OTHER" Then Exit $ IF F$MODE() .EQS. "NETWORK" Then Exit $JAM: $ set noon $! the rest of your sylogin.com Regards, David Mathog mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech ************************************************************************** *Affordable VMS? See: http://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu:8000/www/pcvms.html * **************************************************************************