Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:12:07 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: putty and xorg7.2 Message-ID: <20070523191207.GD61762@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <006501c79d66$55248430$609b65c1@vpe.de> References: <00c201c79d49$49ae94a0$609b65c1@vpe.de> <006501c79d66$55248430$609b65c1@vpe.de>
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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:15:23PM +0200, Helmut Schneider wrote: > From: "Helmut 'Ingrid' Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> > > >From: "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> > >>On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:03:49PM +0200, Helmut Schneider wrote: > >>>I recently upgraded some FBSD6.2 machines to xorg 7.2 according to > >>>/usr/ports/UPDATING. By now I cannot use x-forwarding with putty or > >>>ssh -X anymore as the DISPLAY paramater is not set anymore. I connect > >>>to 2 machines using putty and x-forwarding. Here are the results: > >>See mail to this list with subject "ssh X11 forwarding and X.org 7.2" > >>which explains the cause and solution. > >Hm, I might have missed something, but I created a symlink for > >/usr/X11R6 -> /usr/local and then did a portupgrade -afPP but DISPLAY > >is still not exported. > > OK, one has to install xauth. This might/should be a dependency of > xorg-libraries. imo. No, because it's not a library :) It's an application and is part of xorg-apps. It never used to be part of xorg-libraries either (it was formerly in xorg-clients), so this was always something you needed to do. Kris
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