[svlug] Linuxizing Solaris

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:05:03 -0700 
Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer at got.net> wrote:

> Well, I've been working in a UNIX shop that runs Sun
> SPARC and Solaris 7.  

Where you at now?

> Anyway, next I want to dump the CDE. My goal is to have the system
> boot into the console. I'll start X using .xinitrc and xinit,
> which will then start up fvwm2.

While I kicked out of Solaris in the 2.5/2.6 days, at that time a
.xinitrc (could have been .xsession) in your home directory would
successfully cause my selection of WM etc to be run for my logins
instead of CDE.  Faint memory: You must either set them to 0600 or
0700 for it to work -- I seem to recall a permissions check to help
prevent spoofing.

> That's how I run my systems. Clearly this will require root to
> alter some system-wide boot scripts. 

It shouldn't.

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