From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 07:39:08 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 790E816A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:39:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv2.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59FC43D54 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:39:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from bremerhaven.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.10]) by antsrv2.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CpM2z-0004CE-5N; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:39:05 +0100 Message-ID: <41E77719.3000505@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:39:05 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: albi References: <35F05B14-6596-11D9-8196-000A956EB07E@partners.org> <41E6C8B0.1020602@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <41E6C8B0.1020602@scii.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "antsrv2.ant.uni-bremen.de", hasmessageblock similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details.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. > > > did you enable X-forwarding in the sshd-config ? afaik indeed only the > X-libraries are needed to make remote X over ssh work > For X-forwarding to work, have to install xorg-clients too. [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -------------------------------------------------- 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: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 07:39:08 -0000 albi wrote: > Richard Morse wrote: > >> 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. > > > did you enable X-forwarding in the sshd-config ? afaik indeed only the > X-libraries are needed to make remote X over ssh work > For X-forwarding to work, you need to have /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth on your server. That is, you have to install xorg-clients too. -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax : -3341