On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm running a piece of network backup software called 'bacula', on a minimal
> CentOS 6.4 install.
> I got everything working pretty well, but there's one piece giving me some
> problem-- a component which gives status info via a GUI.
> In the past, on previous installations, I could ssh to the bacula server with
> the -X option, and run the application (called 'bat'), and it would display
> back. I'd have to make sure the sshd_config permits Xforwarding, but that
> was all.
>
> On my new CentOS 6.4 minimal, I always get:
>
> bat: cannot connect to X server
>
> I tried the usual tricks of exporting the display to my system where I want
> to see the GUI, which shouldn't be necessary anyway due to the 'ssh -X', but
> I thought I'd give it a shot. Still no go.
Did you try -Y instead of -X? It has never been clear to me which
things need -Y so I generally just use -Y all the time. Also adding
-v or -vv to the ssh args will sometimes show the details about what
is failing. You probably need the xorg-x11-xauth package if you don't
have it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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