From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 08:44:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA21236 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:44:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [158.43.129.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA21228 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim 1.61 #1) id 0wX7OV-0001Z8-00; Thu, 29 May 1997 16:45:39 +0100 Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 16:45:39 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Peter Radcliffe Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How do other people exec remote X programs ? Doing a "rsh ....." > doesn't send your DISPLAY over, so you end up with some nasty lines > like: Personally I use: ssh -f machine.somewhere xterm If you arn't using ssh, why not ? :) pre-ssh I used to use a little script called rcmd that did rsh making sure the DISPLAY enviroment variable was set correctly, etc. http://www.pir.net/pir/bits/rcmd I remember having to hack it slightly for the domain in DISPLAY (it wasn't my script, just found it around somewhere). Peter. -- pir pir@darkwave.org.uk pir@pir.net pir@shore.net