07-25-2004
spawning new shells using dtterm in Solaris 8
Hi all,
First time poster here. Great forum.
Im trying to spawn new shells and pass commands to the new shells in a solaris 8 environment utilizing dtterm and its option -e.
I can successfully spawn a window utilizing the following code:
/usr/dt/bin/dtterm -display <ip.address> &
This will create a new dtterm shell and return control to the command line in the originating shell. (the -display option is neccessary because I am utilizing VMware).
In the new shell im trying to launch a simple source command which sets up some environment variables and runs some diagnostic programs. This command has been tried and runs successfully. Permissions for this command are set to 777
so ideally my command would look something like: /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -display <IP address>-e source /home/PSMENV &
where 'source /home/PSMENV' is the command with the absolute address of the file to be sourced.
THE PROBLEM:
Whenever i try this the new window will open, run the command and then close, often happening so quickly it just looks like a quick window flash.
I have tried encapsulating the command in single and double quotes, this yields a no such file or directory response.
Im trying to get this too work so the window will open, run the command, and STAY OPEN.
What can I do to make this happen?
Any help would be appreciated
*edit* Sorry for the confusion its dtterm
Last edited by Rocketman8541; 07-26-2004 at 11:45 PM..
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RESIZE(1) General Commands Manual RESIZE(1)
NAME
resize - set environment and terminal settings to current xterm window size
SYNOPSIS
resize [ -u | -c ] [ -s [ row col ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Resize prints a shell command for setting the appropriate environment variables to indicate the current size of xterm window from which the
command is run. For this output to take effect, resize must either be evaluated as part of the command line (usually done with a shell
alias or function) or else redirected to a file which can then be read in. From the C shell (usually known as /bin/csh), the following
alias could be defined in the user's .cshrc:
% alias rs 'set noglob; eval `resize`'
After resizing the window, the user would type:
% rs
Users of versions of the Bourne shell (usually known as /bin/sh) that don't have command functions will need to send the output to a tempo-
rary file and then read it back in with the "." command:
$ resize > /tmp/out
$ . /tmp/out
Resize determines the user's current shell by first checking if $SHELL is set, and using that. Otherwise it determines the user's shell by
looking in the password file. Generally Bourne-shell variants (including ksh) do not modify $SHELL, so it is possible for resize to be
confused if one runs resize from a Bourne shell spawned from a C shell.
OPTIONS
The following options may be used with resize:
-u This option indicates that Bourne shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell isn't /bin/sh.
-c This option indicates that C shell commands should be generated even if the user's current shell isn't /bin/csh.
-s [rows columns]
This option indicates that Sun console escape sequences will be used instead of the VT100-style xterm escape codes. If rows and
columns are given, resize will ask the xterm to resize itself. However, the window manager may choose to disallow the change.
Note that the Sun console escape sequences are recognized by XFree86 xterm and by dtterm. The resize program may be installed as sunsize,
which causes makes it assume the -s option.
The rows and columns arguments must appear last; though they are normally associated with the -s option, they are parsed separately.
FILES
/etc/termcap for the base termcap entry to modify.
~/.cshrc user's alias for the command.
ENVIRONMENT
TERM set to "xterm" if not already set.
TERMCAP variable set on systems using termcap
COLUMNS, LINES variables set on systems using terminfo
SEE ALSO
csh(1), tset(1), xterm(1)
AUTHORS
Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Edward Moy (Berkeley)
Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 by X Consortium
See X(7) for a complete copyright notice.
X Window System RESIZE(1)