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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:08:53 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        pg@eth1.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh -X forwarding fails
Message-ID:  <20020318230853.A83083@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020318002107.41822.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com>; from kjerstes@yahoo.com on Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800
References:  <20020318002107.41822.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800, Peter Gatsoulis wrote:

> also doing "env" shows me that there IS NO "DISPLAY"
> variable present in either the remote or local
> machines.
>=20
> I suspect this is the problem???

Yep.  You have to set DISPLAY to the correct value before ssh'ing,
otherwise ssh has no idea which display you want X traffic forwarded
to.  It should usually be something like ":0.0" to indicate the
primary local display, but it doesn't always have to be.

Kris

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