hi ya dima not sure, but, think you missed my out-of-order ssh commandline inserted back in before your comments below connections between foo and westek is assumed to be over ssh
( am assuming that they had done ssh before having the ( X11 DISPLAY problem lots of things can be done to run securely or other "conveniences" .... good or bad is up to them... ( usually not a problem till its too late ... c ya alvin - X11 should not be running if security is an issue... - if one insists on running X11, one should never login as root in xdm... - ssh/X11 forwarding is assumed to be on still... On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > ... > > if you are sitting on a machine called foo and ssh into westek > > > > > > foo:/home/westk> xhost +westek > > > > westek[westk]:/home/westk> export DISPLAY=foo:0.0 > > westek[westk]:/home/westk> gqview & > > # > > # should disply on the machine foo > > # # # to go from westek to foo # westek[westk]:/home/westk> ssh -X -l westk foo ( or vice versa ) > This is a really bad advice: it bypasses ssh X forwarding, > so it a) doesn't help with OP's problem, and b) is insecure. > It shouldn't work anyway: X on foo should be running with > -nolisten tcp. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
