7. Miscellaneous

7.1 Reference

Unix man pages: bootpd(8), tftpd(8), bootptab(5), xdm(1x), xfs(1), fsinfo(1), xset(1), inetd(8)

Linux Ethernet HOWTO document, Linux Net-3 (Networking) HOWTO document

NCD Techtips Archive

NCD Techtips Archive Mirror at CERN

NCDware System Administrator's Guide for UNIX Systems

7.2 Equipment used in the preparation of this document

X terminal: NCD model NCD19r with 19 monochrome monitor 1280x1024 8M RAM

X server software: NCDware V3.2.CV 19r_s

Remote Host: IBM Cyrix 686 P150+ running Slackware (Linux kernel version 2.0.31)

Remote Host: IBM Cyrix M2 200 MMX running Red Hat 5.0 (Linux kernel version 2.0.32)

Network Card: 10 base T Ethernet card (ne 2000 clone) and 8 port hub

Font server version 2 release number 6300

7.3 Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Michael de Lind van Wijngaarden, Jamal Hadi-Salim and Dwight Hodge for assistance in the preparation of this document.

7.4 Outstanding Issues

• Is it possible or wise to start the font server using inetd?
• If the remote host running the font server is powered down but later comes up again, with the font server active, the X terminal may fail to retrieve its fonts. The font path entry has to be re-entered with the console menu or xset. Why?
• The date of the error file designated in the font server config file is changed when xfs is in use but the file is always empty.
• Are there host based diagnostics for the font server?
• Are the procedures for other models of X terminals roughly similar?
• What about XDM?
• What is the procedure to boot the X terminal using NFS (Network File System) or RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol)?
• The following messages appear in the X terminal Console. I am suspicious that they come from xfree86 extensions to X which are not part of the X terminal server. Can someone confirm or deny this?

  %XSERVER-I-NEWCLIENT, host "localhost" connected with blank authorization
  %XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "BIG-REQUESTS"
  %XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "XKEYBOARD"
  %XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "XFree86-Misc"
  

7.5 Feedback

Please write to ihodge at nortel.ca with any comments, suggestions or contributions.