Dear Experts out there,
I need help on setting up the Xterminal ( xmanager ) application on Linux. I've installed Xterminal-1.0.7-1.i386.rpm on RHEL 4.0.
May i know how could i invoke the installed application?
What commands should i use?

Many Thanks

Maybe I'm missing something here. Are you running an xserver?

Evo2.

Hi Evo2,

I downloaded this Xterminal online:Xterminal-1.0.7-1.i386.rpm & installed on RHEL 4.0.
This is the installer which is said to work on Linux ( as the xmanagers/ xterminals i used were all running on Windows). Its the 1st time im installing it on Linux.

I also need to install VNC & SSH on the same machine..
Am totally lost of what to do..
help...

There is no invocation Xterminal is a UI library. See the project's home page

You can launch xterm from the command line, however, this terminal window is nowhere near as user-friendly as gnome-terminal or its KDE equivalent. The latter two can be launched from one of your desktop's menus.

Cheers, Lou

Hi Lou,

Thanks for the advice..
I've installed xterminal on my Linux OS 4.0. I believe i need something like Xmanager thats used for Windows to acces UNIX boxes ( the one with the KDE/GDM GUI interface ).

Could you give me some pointers on how to configure/setup Gnome or KDM ternminal?

Thanks in advance!

Well I'm totally lost as to what you are trying to do. Can you please give details about what your current setup and what exactly you are trying to achieve?

Evo2.

Dear friend Wlchk....
You said you need Xterminal,and you installed Xterminal application.Well friend,My first question is that do you have X windows or not?

Xterminal depends on 2 important packages.
1.x-window library
2.window manager like gnome or kde

Do as following
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Install as follows.
1.install xorg files.
2.install gnome desktop or kde desktop.
3.after installation
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you have to invoke gnome or kde through terminal as follows
#startx
now you may see the application menu. there you would see the X terminal.

Sorry wlchak, I have no idea where you are right now, and so can't provide directions. Where are you?

Cheers, Lou

Dear All,

Apologies if i caused some confusion here..

I am trying to setup a jumphost to run in my company network that's for external vendors access to the network elements.
This jumphost is supposed to run on RHEL Linux 4, and im supposed to install all the necessary apps like xterm, VNC, SSH etc on it.

Right now, we have a jumphost that's running on Windows where we installed the Xmanager application on it for accessing all our Unix boxes in the network.

I am actually stuck here, trying to find something that works like Xmanager on Windows for accessing the Unix boxes.

Could anyone advise me if there is anything like Xmanager ( runs on windows ) for RHEL Linux?

Many Thanks.

Hard to answer you questions since I have no idea what a "jumphost" is, I
don't use windows so I don't know what "Xmanager" does.

Anyway it sounds like you just want to simply install a few packages on your
redhat machine. Do you know how to use the "yum" package manager? There is a
huge amount of documentation.

Also, since you are using redhat you presumably have a support contract (only
reason to use redhat IMHO), so I'd suggest getting them to help you.

Cheers,

Evo2.

Ah, you want an xterm, not the Xterminal rpm. Assuming RHEL comes with yum, and you need an ssh client:

No, RHEL use up2date. Only RHEL5+ use Yum. I would suggest, if you are able to do that, to upgrade to RHEL5 on a separate box and see if you server work fine. You can use the CentOS5 version, a free clone of RHEL. Both version are identical, so you can test for free and pay later if you want the real support from RedHat and access to RHN (you have to reinstall the real RHEL, but can migrate services quite easily).

RHEL4 is getting close to it's end of life. It is in the last support phase and will be "dead" soon, just as Windows 2000. As said by RockDoctor, RHEL5 provide a simple mechanism that will setup everything for you with one simple command. It will do everything for you from downloading packages, installing them, testing dependencies and do basic configurations that will work without additional effort.

To install all those things on RHEL4, you have to insert the CD and add some modules included in them, such as Xorg and VNC. It does not work really well and it may requirer less efforts to just try centOS in a virtual machine on your Windows desktop/Laptop, see if you can reproduce your server environment, if yes, then just migrate the real server from RHEL4 to RHEL5.

http://www.google.com/search?q=jumphost
http://www.google.com/search?q=Xmanager

If I understand you. You want a remote desktop with X forwarding.
http://www.putty.org/
http://www.netsarang.com/products/enterprise.html