Managers,
My original question is at the end of this summary.
The replys I received varied from "mine seem to work OK" to "we
also have this problem".
Some suggested that the file .wpc51.set should also be in the users
home directory. This was the case and did not solve the problem.
Some suggested that the system .wpc51.set file needed to be in the
root partition of the diskless client. This also made no difference.
Some suggested the need to mount the file system read/write - it already
was.
Some suggested it may have been the requirement to run some WP
programs setuid to root on a NFS mounted file system. I tried this and it
did not seem to fix this particular problem.
Marcel Bernards hit the nail on the head when he said the version 5.1
has problems working in a NFS automounted environment with the locking feature
turned on. Disabling the locking feature causes the printing to fail, not
terribly useful in a Word Processor. We could not work out a workaround to get
this problem solved. We therefore use the ELCs as X-terms when running WP5.1,
this works fine.
Thanks to the following who replied.
kambiz@srv.PacBell.COM (Kambiz Aghaiepour)
stan@cs.concordia.ca (Stan Swiercz)
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell)
Bernards@ECN.NL (Marcel Bernards)
johnm@sse.com (John Malick)
<mike_+a_WTL_+lmike+_p+r%Trans_Ocean_Express@mcimail.com>(Michael Pavlov)
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
>
>
> Dear managers,
> we have WP5.1 installed on a file server. This file server
> serves IPCs, IPXs, SS1s, SS2, S10 etc and all these machines run WP 5.1
> successfully via NFS mounted file system.
>
> However, when trying to run WP 5.1 on a DISKLESS ELC we get a Fatal
> error on start up,
>
> "Bad or missing system setup file, -- .wpc51.set"
>
> This file does exist and is run by all other hosts successfully, even
> an ELC with a boot disk. The diskless ELCs are running 4.1.2, from a 4.1.2
> file server (670MP). The problem seems to be related to the fact that the
> machines are diskless.
>
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem? If so, your help would be
> greatly appreciated. I will summarize to the list.
>
>
Kind regards
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Stephen Fitzgerald E-mail: sjf@mod.dsto.gov.au
Maritime Operations Division Phone : +61 8 259 5992
DSTO Salisbury, South Australia Fax : +61 8 259 5139
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