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From: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>
To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>
Cc: "" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: identifying my network address
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Quoting David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>:

> I am running an Xwindow on a windows box. I need a script to 
> tell me what my network address is so that I can set my DISPLAY
> varible correctly eg: 192.168.1.2:0.0   
> 
> Any idea what command would be useful for this purpose?

How are you connecting to the *nix box?  If you're using an SSH client, you
could just enable X11 port forwarding (on both the client and server), and let
SSH handle the DISPLAY variable assignemnt.  Not to mention, your X traffic can
then come back thru any ACLs/FW policies that might otherwise block standard
:60xx X traffic.

--daxbert

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