Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:51:08 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: brian@utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rstartd on freefall Message-ID: <199705300121.KAA22785@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705291406.PAA03949@utell.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "May 29, 97 03:06:38 pm"
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Brian Somers stands accused of saying: > > 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: > > rsh freefall xterm -display $HOSTDISPLAY -T freefall -n freefall -e bash > --login Use ssh for anything remote, or xon for local stuff. Note that your command above is _much_ less efficient than xterm -sb -sl 2000 -title freefall -e ssh freefall ... which will still let you run X programs on freefall, but runs the xterm itself locally. I cannot imagine running an xterm on freefall, with the 2-4s RTT I have here 8) > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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