Hello.
I got only one response from James Sainsbury <sainsb_j_at_chem.usyd.edu.au>.
Many thanks to him.
I seems that the problem comes from the suid bit on xterm. When I remove
it (chmod u-s xterm), my problem disappears.
Following are the answer (an extract) and my initial question.
1) The answer
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:48:34 +1100 (EDT)
From: James Sainsbury <sainsb_j_at_chem.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: pine and gv: LD_LIBRARY_PATH visibility
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The only reason the suid bit is set on xterm is so that xterm can write
to /var/adm/utmp & /var/adm/wtmp for a login (xterm -ls ) session.
If you remove the bit you will loose that information which is probably OK.
Here I created a group "utmp" and made xterm sgid "utmp" and made
/var/adm/utmp and /var/adm/wtmp group "utmp" writable to record this info.
eg
-r-x--s--x 1 root utmp 221184 Dec 9 1997 /usr/bin/X11/xterm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 6708 Oct 18 09:36 /var/adm/utmp
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18228132 Oct 18 09:36 /var/adm/wtmp
I haven't had any problems so far.
2) The initial question
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> Hello.
>
> I have installed new versions of gs and gv to display ps files.
> Everything is compiled with X11R6 and libXaw3d. These libraries are stored
> in /import/divers/lib/ (/usr/local/lib equivalent and NFS shared).
>
> pine is configured to start gv when a ps attached file is selected.
>
> When pine is run from the shell prompt, everything works fine. But, when I
> start pine from coolmail (an e-mail notifier) or with the
> command 'xterm -e pine', selecting a ps file doesn't start gv. I have
> instead an error message.
>
> diarra<7> echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> /usr/shlib:/usr/lib:/import/divers/lib
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> diarra<8> xterm -e pine ==> leads to the following error message when
I try > to display a ps file from pine
>
> [Displaying attachment...]15230:/import/divers/bin/gv:
> /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: cannot map libXaw3d.so
>
> In /usr/var/X11/xdm/Xsession, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set too to
> /usr/shlib:/usr/lib:/import/divers/lib.
>
> What am I doing wrong ? With Solaris, the problem doesn't exist.
>
> Please help me.
>
> Christophe.
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