On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 07:25:30 -0500 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> > Today is Setting Orange, the 73rd of The Aftermath, 3186. All Hail > > Discordia! root@hawk:~# env | grep DISPLAY > > DISPLAY=:0 > > Clearly you're doing something special in root's .profile -- at the > very least, you're running that ddate command. Is it possible you're > also hard-coding something like 'export DISPLAY=:0' there? > > > root@hawk:~# xclock & > > [1] 3550 > > root@hawk:~# > > > > (xclock ran successfully.) > > Is it possible you also hard-coded something like > 'export XAUTHORITY=/home/charles/.Xauthority' in root's .profile? > Good thoughts, both. But, no such luck. I also checked the /etc equivalents, and others mentioned in man bash, and found none such. However, in the course of doing that I noticed that .Xauthority is now a regular file, owned by root:root and 0600, as it should be. The date on it is earlier this morning, when I logged in via SSH from another machine. With the su alias I described earlier, xclock works. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
