In Reply to Andrew Miner:
I've installed productView and Pro/E on my Windchill server (solaris 10), however, whenI try to publish something it always errors out. It appears that I'm problems with Pro/E wanting the xserver process running in the background. Has anyone set this configuration up successfully? I've reviewed TPI 143625 and I am having difficulty setting up the virtual frame buffer decribed in the reference.
Thanks
This is what I have done to get this setup on Solaris 10.
- Install ProductView adapters as root
- created a new system (Solaris) user called cadworker. This is the user the Pro/Engineer process that is doing the publishing will be running under. I didn't want root running Pro/Engineer.
- ran proe2pv_config as user cadworker
- set perms on /opt/ptc/Windchill/Windchill/tmp/pubtemp directory so cadworker can write to this directory. Since my install is on a zfs file system I did the following:
- zfs set aclmode=passthrough pool1/opt/ptc/Windchill
- cd /opt/ptc/Windchill/Windchill/tmp
- chown cadworker:guest pubtemp
- chmod A+user:cadworker:list_directory/read_data/add_file/write_data/add_subdirectory/append_data/write_xattr/execute/write_attributes/write_acl/write_owner:file_inherit/dir_inherit:allow pubtemp
- created /opt/ptc/worker/proeworker.root script (see contents below). The sole purpose of this script is to start the user cadworker's startup script.
- In Site | Utilities | Worker Agent Administrator set "Execute command" = /opt/ptc/worker/proeworker.root
- as user cadworker created $HOME/proe_setup/proeworker.cadworker script (see contents below). The sole purpose of this script is to find a vncserver running on the localhost as the user, set DISPLAY to this display, and then fireup proeworker.
- logged into windchill server as user cadworker and started a vncserver: "vncserver -depth 24 -geometry 1200x900". The nice this about running a vncserver is that you can get to it from anywhere with vncviewer and do things like run proepublish manually to debug problems.
- Successfully published several Pro/Engineer models.
Contents of /opt/ptc/worker/proeworker.root
server4# more proeworker.root
#!/bin/sh
#rsj 08/31/2009
#This script starts proeworker as user cadworker
su - cadworker -c /export/home/cadworker/proe_setup/proeworker.cadworker
server4#
Contents of cadworker's $HOME/proe_setup/proeworker.cadworker script
server4# more proeworker.cadworker
#!/bin/sh
#rsj 08/31/2009
#Script to launch proeworker
#The main function of this script is to find a vncserver running as
#the user (cadworker) and set the display to that server.
if [ "`ps -ef | grep Xvnc | grep $USER | grep -v grep`" != " ]; then
#the user already has at least one vncserver running on this host
#find the current running viewer display(s)
#vds=`ps -ef | grep Xvnc | grep $USER | grep -v grep | awk '{print $9}'`
vds=`ps -ef | grep Xvnc | grep $USER | grep -v grep | cut -c52- | awk '{print $2}' | sort | head -1`
DISPLAY="`hostname`${vds}"
export DISPLAY
else
#no displays found so we need to exit
echo "Error: No vnc displays found for $USER"
exit 1
fi
cd $HOME/proe_setup
./proeworker
server4#
Hope this helps.
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