Iris 4D questions
Tom Haapanen
tom at mims-iris.waterloo.edu
Fri Sep 8 00:31:31 AEST 1989
Two questions about booting an Iris 4D70:
1. Is it possible to make the machine boot automatically? Right
now I have to type 'auto' on the console before it starts up.
This means I have to come in to start it up if we have a power
failure on a weekend, for example.
2. When the machine boots up, it starts a NeWS session with one
window, containing the login. However, the 'tools' icon lets
me create a shell, which automatically signs on as root!!!
So anybody could get superuser access by rebooting the machine.
Is there a way to make the system not generate a NeWS session?
We're running 3.1G ...
And one more:
3. Did anyone get the recent GIF viewer working on a 4D70? It
compiled, and igif creates a window, but then says:
ERROR #91 : <lrectwrite> is not implemented.
What does this mean? Who didn't implement it?
Thanks in advance!
\tom haapanen
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