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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:41:12 +0100
From:      Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk>
To:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xauth and latest stable world
Message-ID:  <20000925144112.A26024@bizboz.mistral.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <004901c026f1$8a490930$ff01060a@metamoris.com>; from veldy@veldy.net on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:07:20AM -0500
References:  <004901c026f1$8a490930$ff01060a@metamoris.com>

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 08:07:20AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> I just rebuilt world yesterday on one of my machines.  Now, when I login, I
> get an error message, "/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: not found".  I don't have X
> installed (obviously).  I have never received this before, so I am wondering
> which of the scripts changed and is now looking for this, and shouldn't be.

This means that ssh is trying to set up a forwarded X connection from
that server.  I suspect that the defaults recently changed...  In order
to stop it, edit either ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/config and put in a
line:

ForwardX11 no

Which should stop it.

-Dom


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