On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tom Cook wrote: > My 2 bits worth of experience:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: This shouldn't be happening; my results: nujoma:~> ssh -v -X geingob SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.3, protocol version 1.5. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm debug: Received X11 open request. debug: channel 0: new [X11 connection from 152.2.242.190 port 2160] debug: channel 0: OUTPUT_OPEN -> OUTPUT_WAIT_DRAIN [rvcd IEOF] (and the xterm opens) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export DISPLAY=jmelhuish:0.0 This really shouldn't be happening; you're telling the remote host to send packets directly, NOT through the ssh tunnel. (I'm assuming jmelhuish is the local machine and pinky the remote one.) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm > debug: Received X11 open request. > debug: channel 0: new [X11 connection from pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au > port 32981] > debug: channel 0: OUTPUT_OPEN -> OUTPUT_WAIT_DRAIN [rvcd IEOF] > debug: channel 0: OUTPUT_WAIT_DRAIN -> OUTPUT_CLOSED [obuf empty, send > OCLOSE] > debug: channel 0: shutdown_write ...but then I really don't understand why this is happening; why are you getting debug information from the ssh session when you've told it to ignore ssh and send packets directly through? Here's what I get in the same situation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export DISPLAY=nujoma:0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm Xlib: connection to "nujoma:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xterm Xt error: Can't open display: nujoma:0.0 Can you, or anyone on the list, explain why your posted situation works? I'm very puzzled. > ie. it worked once I exported DISPLAY. It does look like the OP's problem is that DISPLAY isn't being set, but it shouldn't be -- and shouldn't even work when -- set to local:0.0. It should be set to remote:x.0, where x is a number > 0 assigned by the remote host. Mine, for example, gets set to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY hm269-26876:11.0 automatically, where hm269-26876 is the remote machine. ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
