Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:49:38 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Dominic Mitchell" <hdm@mistral.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xauth and latest stable world Message-ID: <009601c026f7$73966e70$ff01060a@metamoris.com> References: <004901c026f1$8a490930$ff01060a@metamoris.com> <20000925144112.A26024@bizboz.mistral.co.uk>
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Thanks. That is what happened. It was my client end. I had X packet forwarding turned on. Oops. It was not a problem with FreeBSD at all. Tom Veldhouse veldy@veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk> To: Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:41 AM Subject: Re: xauth and latest stable world > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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