Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:48:27 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Gatsoulis <kjerstes@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh -X forwarding fails Message-ID: <20020319154827.46477.qmail@web9703.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020318230853.A83083@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Hi Thanx for responding I guess i should explain just a bit further. I have the remote X working fine if I ssh -X from inside my local FBSD X desktop to the remote FBSD system. But I didn't want to just run individual X apps what I wanted to do was start the whole X desktop on my system but it'd really be the remote desktop I was seeing.. Is this possible w/ the "startx" or "startx -listen_tcp" commands? I now am setting the DISPLAY variables correctly but the startx and xinit and XFree86 man pages say that this DISPLAY variable is "set and not read". Thanx again --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800, Peter > Gatsoulis wrote: > > > also doing "env" shows me that there IS NO > "DISPLAY" > > variable present in either the remote or local > > machines. > > > > I suspect this is the problem??? > > Yep. You have to set DISPLAY to the correct value > before ssh'ing, > otherwise ssh has no idea which display you want X > traffic forwarded > to. It should usually be something like ":0.0" to > indicate the > primary local display, but it doesn't always have to > be. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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