Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:21:31 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <20030309222131.A52536@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <1047262824.3e6bf668ac4fd@ra.dweebsoft.com>; from daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com on Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:20:24PM -0800 References: <1047262824.3e6bf668ac4fd@ra.dweebsoft.com>
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:20:24PM -0800, Daxbert wrote: > 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 > > variable 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 assignment. Not to mention, your X traffic can > then come back thru any ACLs/FW policies that might otherwise block standard > :60xx X traffic. I am connecting with xwin32. I have a unix window on my winbox, but what I want is the IP address in unix when the window comes up, so I could simply set the variable in .profile with a DISPLAY=$ipaddress:0.0 export DISPLAY I know xwin32 is capable of ssh, but I do not believe I am running it. If it is necessary to run ssh to do it, then it might prove difficult, because whenever I've run ssh it really slows things down and I think that would be poor performance when I need graphics. No? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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