From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 19:15:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D2016A4CE for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.terralink.de (mail.tlink.de [217.9.16.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D327943D46 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name) Received: from smtp.abyssworld.de (daniel-s-haischt.biz [84.252.66.2]) by mail.terralink.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A493BD614; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:15:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (smtp.abyssworld.de [192.168.1.6]) by smtp.abyssworld.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AEBE18DB0; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:15:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.abyssworld.de ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 06907-04; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:15:13 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: none (smtp.abyssworld.de: 192.168.1.6 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of daniel.stefan.haischt.name) client-ip=192.168.1.6; envelope-from=me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name; helo=[192.168.120.239]; Received: from [192.168.120.239] (smtp.abyssworld.de [192.168.1.6]) by smtp.abyssworld.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF5618DAA; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:15:12 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41E6C8BF.6060703@daniel.stefan.haischt.name> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:15:11 +0100 From: "Daniel S. Haischt" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Morse References: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org> In-Reply-To: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Processed-By: GNU Anubis v4.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at abyssworld.de cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use X without installing X? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:15:16 -0000 simply try to export/set the DISPLAY variable before installing any additional software. setenv DISPLAY foo.bar.com:0.0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Your actual X-Server -´ If you are using a bourn shell you need to use export instead of setenv. Richard Morse schrieb: > Hi! I have a FreeBSD 5 STABLE computer which is acting as a server. > Because it doesn't need it, I don't want to install all of X -- my goal > is that there shouldn't be anything that I can't do over ssh from a > command-line. > > Unfortunately, Oracle doesn't agree with me. > > I need to install the Oracle client software on this computer -- it > won't actually be an Oracle server, but does need to be able to connect > to various other servers (mostly from PHP and DBD::Oracle). > > Apparently, in order to run the installer for 9i, it needs X. But, I > figure it shouldn't need all of X, because I intend to connect via `ssh > -X` from a different computer which is running X to actualy do the > display. However, even once I've installed 'x11/xorg-libraries', when I > `ssh -X` to the box $DISPLAY is not set. > > What is the minimum that I need to install to make this work? > > Thanks, > Ricky Morse > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > !DSPAM:41e6c6cb120362022840548! > > -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ > finger -l haischt@daniel.stefan.haischt.name