UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, i tried these sun command on a sun0s 5.7 but get the "cant open display" message. please advise. i am using netterm to telnet.

the last time i did this was a year ago, so maybe you need the man pages to manage this.

But, the window system doesnot know where to open the terminal OR is not allowed to open a terminal

First thing you can try is;
>> xhosts + #on the console window as root

and try to restart the admintool

or sete the env. param. DISPLAY by (if on the csh)
>> setenv DISPLAY `hostname`


I hope this helps

When you only have a telnet connection you can NOT use the grafical `admintool`

To run the GUI interface, you have to have X running on the system you came from.

fyi- xhost is in /usr/openwin/bin/. You must run the command on your system (if it's a UNIX system) on a console window.

If sh or ksh, $ export DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0 (where x is your IP address). Csh was explained already. This command is done on the system you connected to.

If you are on a NT or Window box, then you can still do it - just insure you have X running. Usually a 3rd party product. Search goggle to see if there are any you can get.

hi all!
i am using netterm. i think sun should have something like smitty from ibm to administer instead of going all the way to the console just to get the interface.

just my two penny worth of thoughts.... please advise if it is possible if i used netterm for sun solstice, admintool, smc

thanks

You can see a comparison list of commands (IBM to Solaris) on this web page at ibm.

1. Smit (in GUI form) interface is like admintool and you need either X to run it. Has nothing to do with being on the console. If YOU are logging into system B (UNIX) from system A (UNIX) to run a X GUI, then you need to open system A to accept X traffic. That can only be done from the console window of system A. There are two different terminal window in most UNIX flavors - a console terminal window, and a terminal window.

2. You actually would like admintool to work like smit. Smit can be either a GUI or text based. Please forward your wishes to Sun. I wouldn't mind seeing it either.

FYI - different ways to admin a AIX system.
Web-based System Manager, an object-oriented GUI that provides assistance for less experienced administrators and remote administration of one or more machines from any client platform.
The System Management Interface Tool, or SMIT, a task-oriented, menu-based interface that supports all common administration tasks. There are two versions of SMIT: an X Window version that provides GUI features such as point-and-click operations, and an ASCII text version that can be run on any character-mode terminal.
AIX command strings, which can be invoked directly by the user from the command line or through scripts. Both Web-based System Manager and SMIT execute these same commands from within their interfaces.