[ale] FC4 and setting $ISPLAY

Robert Story rstory-l at 2006.revelstone.com
Mon Apr 10 13:11:29 EDT 2006


On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:19:40 -0400 Pete wrote:
PH> > How are you getting to the remote boxes?  ssh or telnet??
PH> 
PH> telnet.  Also, $DISPLAY is not valid locally  with localhost or the
PH> machine name on the interface to the intranet.

If you are using telnet, I'm pretty sure you have to set the display manually.
Then you'd have to check:

1) outgoing firewall on remote box
2) incoming firewall on local box
3) xhost permissions on local box


If you can, use ssh with X11 forwarding (ssh -X remote), and it should just
work.



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