Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-30 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> This is correct. The method originally described completely defeats the > purpose of ssh X11 forwarding. Note that for this to work, the > sshd_config file on the remote machine must have a "X11Forwarding yes" > line, and the "-X' directive can be eliminated by adding the line > "ForwardX11 ye

Re: [techtalk] Best OS for NAT?

2000-09-30 Thread Aaron Malone
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:39:50AM -0400, Kath wrote: > My school district is planning to switch from WinNT boxes running proxy > software to Network Address Translation. I'm gonna try to convince the > guy from the tech company who does our 'net stuff to use a Linux distro. > Which one would be

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-30 Thread Aaron Malone
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:57:10PM -0400, Laurel Fan wrote: > If I understand what you're doing, this actually doesn't do ssh > forwarding. It's just plain remote X clients, and will work through > any method of connecting to the X-client-running-machine. (Note that > the above method will allow

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-30 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Sep-100 Re: [techtalk] Does there e.. by Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] [procedure snipped] > In your ssh setup you have to make sure you have X11Forwarding enabled. > For OpenSSH this is in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ... I think in most > distributions of OpenSSH it is disabled b

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-30 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> export DISPLAY='server:0.0' This, of course, is only for bash. In csh it would be setenv DISPLAY server:0.0 -nicole ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-30 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Here's what we do: is the box you want to run the apps *from* and is the box you want to run apps *on* (i.e. where they should display) ssh export DISPLAY='server:0.0' on xhost +client then on run your x apps... they will display on your box :o) In your ssh setup you have to make sure

Re: [techtalk] Does there exist...?

2000-09-30 Thread Olivier Tharan
Le 28 septembre 2000 a 10:26, Lyta Alexander a écrit : > or maybe start an X session inside of screen > (can't say i've tried that though, just a guess) I just tried this solution, but it halts on this error: $ startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.

[techtalk] Best OS for NAT?

2000-09-30 Thread Kath
My school district is planning to switch from WinNT boxes running proxy software to Network Address Translation.  I'm gonna try to convince the guy from the tech company who does our 'net stuff to use a Linux distro.  Which one would be the best to use?  I'm favorable towards Debian, what ar

[techtalk] Kernel params

2000-09-30 Thread Kathryn Hogg
Can someone point me to documentation on the available linux kernel params and how I go about querying and modifying them? It appears that I'm either hitting the system limit for open files or the user limit. "lsof | wc -l" tells me that I have 2843 open files at the moment. And another thing,

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-30 Thread Subba Rao
On 0, Julie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a directory of 1+ text files and would like to search for > > some strings in these files. When I tried using "grep" command with an > > asterisk, I get the error message somthing to the effect, > > > > "F