>No, but you'll need to logout of rocks7 and ssh back into it. >Are you physically logged into rocks7? Or are you connecting via SSH? $DISPLAY = :1 kind of means that you are physically logged into the machine
I am connecting through a vnc session. Right now, I have access to the desktop of the frontend and I open a terminal and run things. I even xclock is working on the frontend and compute-0-0 (through ssh -Y). Regards, Mahmood