Pierre Fortin wrote: > > Stephen Bosch wrote: > > > > Better yet, use ssh to make your console connections to the remote > > machine. ssh will do two nice things: > > > > 1) ssh will by default set your DISPLAY variable when you connect > > 2) ssh does display forwarding so that all your X traffic is encrypted, > > too. > > Strangely, I've never gotten this to work either to a remote machine or > locally. Never fully investigated, except to ensure forwarding was enabled... > [time passes...] > I just tried again and it worked... as root. > >From the same command window, I get: > [pfortin@bones Security]$ ssh -X bones > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > Last login: Sun Sep 10 00:24:56 2000 > [pfortin@bones pfortin]$ emacs junk > channel 0: istate 4 != open > channel 0: ostate 64 != open > Error: Couldn't find per display information > [pfortin@bones pfortin]$ > > I can't find the above error string in any of the binaries/libraries. > > Does this sound familiar to anyone? Well... I recently had a problem on one of my machines and finally discovered that it was because ssh looks in /etc/hosts or something... I had some bad information in there (grr... it escapes me exactly *what* was wrong)... but you might try examining those things more closely. Though my guess is that there is something wrong with your display forwarding (as opposed to just the variable). -Stephen-
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