From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 18:21:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20560 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 18:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20551 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 18:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA22785; Fri, 30 May 1997 10:51:08 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705300121.KAA22785@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall In-Reply-To: <199705291406.PAA03949@utell.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "May 29, 97 03:06:38 pm" To: brian@utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:51:08 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Somers stands accused of saying: > > How do other people exec remote X programs ? Doing a "rsh ....." > doesn't send your DISPLAY over, so you end up with some nasty lines > like: > > rsh freefall xterm -display $HOSTDISPLAY -T freefall -n freefall -e bash > --login Use ssh for anything remote, or xon for local stuff. Note that your command above is _much_ less efficient than xterm -sb -sl 2000 -title freefall -e ssh freefall ... which will still let you run X programs on freefall, but runs the xterm itself locally. I cannot imagine running an xterm on freefall, with the 2-4s RTT I have here 8) > Brian -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[