Filter
Top Products
Appendix F Additional SSM Information
530 September 2002 HPSS Installation Guide
Release 4.5, Revision 2
• The file .motifbind is read by the Motif window manager when it starts up, and is used to
set key bindings to make Sammi work correctly. There are six versions of this file in /usr/
lpp//sammi/data:
.motifbind.dec
.motifbind.hp
.motifbind.ibm
.motifbind.sgi
.motifbind.sun_mit
.motifbind.sun_news
In theory, all SSM users need .motifbind files in their home directories on the hosts where they
work with SSM and view the windows (which may not be the same as the hosts where they are
running Sammi). The Sammi documentation states that the proper file for the platform should
be copied to each home directory and renamed to “.motifbind”.
In practice, on AIX systems, the file is not required because the settings in .motifbind.ibm are
the same as the defaults built into Motif. On other platforms, you may want to experiment to
see if using one of these files solves any keyboard problems you may be having.
• The file <Sammi installation directory>/data/keydefs.dat also affects Sammi keyboard
behavior. This file is loaded into Sammi whenever it starts. By default, it contains keyboard
data appropriate to the platform where Sammi is installed.
A user who views SSM windows on a different platform may need to load a different
keydefs.dat file. The alternatives in <Sammi installation directory>/data are:
keydefs.dat.ALPHA
keydefs.dat.HP
keydefs.dat.NIGHT
keydefs.dat.RS6000
keydefs.dat.SCO
keydefs.dat.SGI
keydefs.dat.SPARC_SOLARIS
keydefs.dat.SUN
Each user can load a keydefs.dat file by using the Set Keyboard option under the Session
heading on the SSM main menu. This change lasts as long as the current SSM session.
Alternatively, the HPSS administrator can permanently change the keydefs.dat file for a user
by creating a Sammi login command file which includes a redefine-keys command specifying
the appropriate keyboard file. Once the login command file is created, the administrator will
have toedit the Sammi user authorization file to assign the login command file to the users who
need it (see above).
• Each user is allowed to set “preferences” to customize selected windows in SSM (see
Chapter 1: Managing HPSS Servers (page 19) in the HPSS Management Guide). These