WorkMan system notes: SVR4

# SVR4 notes

This doesn't apply to Solaris 2, which has its own page.

WorkMan was ported to SVR4 by Baruch Cochavy (bcochavy@iil.intel.com).

WorkMan needs to be installed suid root. That's because the kernel allow pass-through device open to root only, no matter what the permissions are.

The build process should be done in two parts; first, as a normal user, do

> mv Makefile.svr4 Makefile ; make

Then, su to root, and do `make root`. This may be followed by `make install`, still as root (or any other uid that can write to the destination directory).

Note that the first time WorkMan is used, a pass-through node will be created. This node will be owned by root, and will belong to group root as well. This is needed to provide access control to the CD device under WorkMan.

For example, if the CD-ROM device is `/dev/rcdrom/cd0`, WorkMan will create `/dev/rcdrom/cd0p`. Note that this is the default name for WorkMan on SVR4.

Complied using GCC 2.4.5, using XFree86-1.2 and accompanying OpenLook so called 'extra' distribution. Does not seem to suffer the memory leak bug in the 'about' popup.

Works on SVR 4.0 4.0 and Toshiba 3401B CD-ROM drive.

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##### Last update: 02 Jun 1995