From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 15:18:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F8137B9E6 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool0264.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool0264.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0166.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.250.166]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28858; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0264.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01051; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:15:44 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the use of ssh-agent(1) Message-ID: <20000709151543.G394@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20000709195220.C233@parish> <20000709140928.E394@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <20000709223946.F233@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000709223946.F233@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 10:39:46PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 10:39:46PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 02:09:28PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: [snip] > > And in .xinitrc, > > > > if [ ! "X$SSH_AGENT_PID" = "X" ]; then > > sleep 3 > > \xterm -T "SSH AUTHORIZATION" -fn '7x14' -geometry 85x5+150+250 -e ssh-add > ^^^ > > Is the ``\'' a typo? No. "xterm" is aliased earlier, xterm xterm -n "$USER@$HOST" & And I do not want to use the alias. This is actually one of those things I have always meant to ask about. Is there a better way to do that? Setting 'XTerm.title: $USER@$HOST' in .Xresources would not have the desired effect for several reasons. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message