whecht Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Would you check with retrospect vendor the following question? Can we install restrospect client without X windows running on the system. When I run installation, it tried to display a window to ask for password, and since we don’t run X windows on our Linux systems on DMZ, the installation cannot complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psykoyiko Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Quote: Walter Hecht said: Can we install restrospect client without X windows running on the system. When I run installation, it tried to display a window to ask for password, and since we don’t run X windows on our Linux systems on DMZ, the installation cannot complete. I did some testing, and found out that the client install script only tries to open an X window if X is actually running on the machine. If X is not running, it asks for the first password in the current shell. In any case, you may be able to get around it by copying /usr/local/dantz/client/rcl to /etc/init.d, executing /usr/local/dantz/client/retroclient -setpass, and then executing /etc/init.d/rcl start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miah Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 I belive that the 'Xwindows stuff' requires Java too. Looking at RetroClient.sh I notice several temp races (simple security problems that should be fixed), and a comment about exiting if JAVA_HOME isn't set. I run the client on several linux systems and it works fine, I've never once loaded the "Xwindows client" and don't ever intend to. -miah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psykoyiko Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 He's not talking about the GUI interface to the retrospect client. I believe the problem he is experiencing is during the installation of the rpm, when it is asking for an initial password. I have verified that the install does in some cases attempt to open an xterm and ask for the password, but it only appears to be when X is running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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