Dynamically Set Env. Variable To Client Ip Address

[j_70 at comcast.net]

Thanks that works great! Could you (or anyone) recommend good resources for learning bash, sed, awk  and other useful sysadmin tools. If this is the wrong forum for this question, my apologies and let the thread die.


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From: "Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA)" <jonathan.w.miner at baesystems.com>
> One method is to add this to their login scripts:
> 
> t=`tty | sed 's%/dev/%%'`
> export DISPLAY=`who | awk '$2 == t {print $NF":0"}' t=$t | sed 's%(%%;s%)%%'`
> 
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> Subject:	Dynamically Set Env. Variable To Client Ip Address
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> Does anyone know of a way to grab the client's IP address and assign it to the 
> DISPLAY environment variable. I want to do this for users that use X displays 
> but due to DHCP may not have the same IP every time they log in. Thanks.
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