[2796] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Tue Nov 5 13:55:31 1996
To: Wes Parker <wesp@ennui.ioa.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Nov 1996 12:06:32 EST."
<199611051706.MAA01850@ennui.ioa.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 13:43:10 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> I've been running exmh on a Slackware Linux distribution for some time now.
> Last week, I upgraded my system to RedHat 4.0, running kernel 2.0.23. I am
> also using the MetroX X server. The RedHat distribution included exmh-1.6.7,
> and I had been running 1.6.9, so instead of installing the rpm I d/l a copy
> from Bruce's site and installed it.
>
> I use xdm and fvwm. I have a button set up to bring up exmh. When I try to
> access exmh via the button, exmh tries to start up, and seems to hang after I
> see "Starting: /usr/local/bin/exmh-bg" on the status line. If I click on a
> folder, I get an error box with the message:
>
> couldn't execute "scan": no such file or directory
> while executing
> "open "|$mhProfile(scan-proc) +$F last:$ftoc(scanSize)
> -width $ftoc(scanWidth)""
> invoked from within
> "set input [open "|$mhProfile(scan-proc) +$F last:$ftoc(scanSize)
> (other stuff cut for brevity),
>
> and when I dismiss that dialogue box, I see "tkerror: couldn't execute "scan":
> no suc ..." on the status line.
>
> BUT...
>
> I can immediately go to an xterm session, execute exmh, and the program runs
> with no problems.
>
> I'm sure that this is something stupid, like a path screwed up somewhere, but
> I can't seem to find it. The .profile and .bashrc that load with the shell
> don't set any paths. I do that in .xsession. I'm not an X-god, so there's
> probably something I'm missing, but I don't have a clue where to look. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks!
Hopefully, we are not going to get the pleasant mail bounce this time!
The point is that scan (and probably the other MH executables are not
in your path when you run xdm. The path for the MH executables is set
in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, so if you source those in
.xession, you will be fine.
So either just do
PATH=/usr/bin/mh:$PATH
export PATH
in .xsession
or source the shell init files corresponding to your shell in
.xsession. Here is my .xsession (my shell is bash):
#!/bin/bash
# systemwide config
if [ -f /etc/profile ]; then
source /etc/profile
fi
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
source /etc/bashrc
fi
# my profile
if [ -f ~/.bash_profile ]; then
source ~/.bash_profile
fi
# keymaps
if [ -f ~/.Xmodmap ]; then
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
fi
# pland daemon for plan
pland -k
rxvt &
xhost moni
xhost zebra
if [ ! -z $(type -path oclock) ]; then
oclock -geometry +0+0 &
else
xclock -geometry +0+0 &
fi
if [ ! -z $(type -path fvwm) ]; then
exec fvwm
else
exec twm
fi
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