Re: Running X on servers in really plain language...

2003-01-03 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:23:12AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > >Ok, so what I'm understanding is that a linux host system > >without X installed can be accessed from another computer, > >remotely, using ssh and its X system to operate an X session

Re: Running X on servers in really plain language...

2002-12-17 Thread Alan Peery
Havoc Pennington wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:19:08AM -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote: Ok, so what I'm understanding is that a linux host system without X installed can be accessed from another computer, remotely, using ssh and its X system to operate an X session from the host? You

Re: Running X on servers in really plain language...

2002-12-08 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Jim Christiansen wrote: >Ok, so what I'm understanding is that a linux host system >without X installed can be accessed from another computer, >remotely, using ssh and its X system to operate an X session >from the host? >From the very beginning of X back in the early 1980s, X

Re: Running X on servers in really plain language...

2002-12-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11:26 07 Dec 2002, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:19:08AM -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote: | > Ok, so what I'm understanding is that a linux host system without X | > installed can be accessed from another computer, remotely, using ssh and its | > X syst

Re: Running X on servers in really plain language...

2002-12-07 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:19:08AM -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > Ok, so what I'm understanding is that a linux host system without X > installed can be accessed from another computer, remotely, using ssh and its > X system to operate an X session from the host? > You need the X applicatio

Re: Running X on servers in really plain language...

2002-12-07 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hi, Ok, so what I'm understanding is that a linux host system without X installed can be accessed from another computer, remotely, using ssh and its X system to operate an X session from the host? Thanks, Jim _ The new MSN 8:

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 5 Dec 2002, Joe Klemmer wrote: >> X11 is a network protocol. You do not EVER need to install an X >> server on any server machine *ever*. You can run our X based >> configuration utilities just fine from an ssh shell with display >> to a remote X server. > > You don't _need_ to insta

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-05 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:21, Mike A. Harris wrote: > X11 is a network protocol. You do not EVER need to install an X > server on any server machine *ever*. You can run our X based > configuration utilities just fine from an ssh shell with display > to a remote X server. You don't _ne

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Alan Peery wrote: >Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:47:46 + >From: Alan Peery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: Runni

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, M. Yu wrote: >I was recently installing RedHat 8.0 in my office PC and noticed that it now >comes with a package group labeled "Server Configuration Tools". Clicking >on Details show that the set contain RPMs that RH put together to provide >GUI front ends to configuration too

Re: Running X on Servers

2002-12-04 Thread Joe Klemmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your comment seems to come from a 'political' point of view, you must > know the command line options to run Linux, this is not true. If you > have nothing else to do with your time, by all means learn and

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-03 Thread Alan Peery
M. Yu wrote: To me, running X on a server is not only illogical but a waste of precious resources and introducing a potential security risk. I think there is a huge difference between running an X server and having libraries availlable for running X programs. I think the X libraries belong o

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-03 Thread davidsudjiman
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Dusan Djordjevic wrote: > Yes and no, IMHO. Experienced sysadmin will do administration usual way. > Home users/desktop users/unexperienced persons/win admins/whoever will > use graphical admin tools. I think having that kind of choice is great. > -- > Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-03 Thread dballester
Hi: Well... Make it with GUI, make it by command line... the important thing is that you must know what are you doing. For me the GUI is very helpful when are used to parametrize some application or command with a lot of parameters. I must know what I'm doing, and how it can be done from comm

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-03 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:22:06PM +0800, M. Yu wrote: > I was recently installing RedHat 8.0 in my office PC and noticed that it now > comes with a package group labeled "Server Configuration Tools". Clicking > on Details show that the set contain RPMs that RH put together to provide > GUI front

Re: Running X on servers

2002-12-03 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
> So, what about you guys, where do you stand? Do think running X on > servers is the way to go? Yes and no, IMHO. Experienced sysadmin will do administration usual way. Home users/desktop users/unexperienced persons/win admins/whoever will use graphical admin tools. I think having that kind o