single linux box on dsl?

[Guy Fraser]

Satish Balay wrote:

>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Guy Fraser wrote:
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>>I recently got a FreeBSD 5.2 box to forward X to my FC1 box.
>>I had struggled with that box for some time and could not figure out why
>>it was not working. I have other FreeBSD boxes that forward X quite
>>well. Finally a couple of days ago I decided to install a complete XF86
>>setup rather than just the libs. Killed sshd started sshd then logged 
>>out. After
>>logging back in I could run nedit and it worked.
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>Most likely you did not have 'xauth' installed on the remote
>machine. Without this - ssh-xforwarding doesn't work.
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Aha.
Thanx, I'll check to see which pakage provides it.

>>I have on occasion come across a machine or two that required the
>>environment variable 'DISPLAY' to be set and exported in
>>.bash_profile like this :
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>>export DISPLAY='localhost:0.0'
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>>I don't know if DISPLAY=':0.0' would work or not, because I didn't try.
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>Yeah the DISPLAY env variable needs to be set to a 'working' value
>before ssh can forward it (it also needs to forward 'xauth' for this
>display value correclty). And with cygwin-shell - it is usually not
>set.
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>Satish
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