Brian Parish wrote: > > While the doctor is in, do you have any idea why I can ssh -X to my > server and run any GUI app EXCEPT DrakConf? > > thanks > Brian > LOL!
Hey Brian, I wish I did. I really try to stay away from most of the GUI stuff that is used for network/system configuration. If I can not do it with "vi", then I probably do not really need it. I have seen your quandary posted here a time or two. Have you checked out the ownership and perms for the binary that launches DrakConf. There might be something different about it (as opposed to the other programs that do launch via ssh). I guess if I really needed to do what you want to do with DrakConf, I would first launch it locally with the CLI but I would do so with a strace. I would also do a strace on a program (again do all this at the CLI) that I can export via ssh. Start looking at what is different about DrakConf. Compare the two strace results, the one from DrakConf, and the one from the program that does work with ssh -X. See if anything pops up as suspicious. And totally check all log files for any errors that might be poping up when you are trying to export DrakConf. If all that fails, *yell* at the mandrake folks, such as civ or Vincent. After all, when it comes to Mandrake, they are really the *only* experts here. Good luck, drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of despair --Emerson
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