Hi
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Kedar Patankar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I try resetting this DISPLAY, by saying "export DISPLAY=", and
> then do a "su", it just dies with a segmentation fault!!!
> I have observed this behavior on several RH 6.1 boxes. Any clues
> why is that DISPLAY is getting set that way? And why should changing its
> value cause "su" to segfault??
> And most importantly, have anyone else observed this behavior with
> 6.1???
>
DISPLAY variable is for the terminal that displays X output. You are not
supposed to alter it, at least forcefully. It is bound to dump a
segmentation fault. It gets assigned from X startup script(I suppose) and
can be set to a different value in order to get X output on a different
screen.
HTH
Bye
Shridhar
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