Something that works quite well is installing just the XBase stuff. No XServer or anything like that. Just the libraries. Then turn on X forwarding on SSH and connect from your workstation using SSH and run the graphical app. It should connect the X server on your workstation and let you run the app, albeit somewhat slower, without ever running the Xserver on your server. Assuming you have the xlibraries, X forwarding turned on in ssh_config on the workstation and sshd_config on the server, and whatever package includes xauth it's really quite simple.
Jeff On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:56:24AM -0600, Ian Bruseker wrote: > Ah, and now we get to my reason for asking the question. I noticed that > RedHat now includes quite a number of redhat-config-* tools for admin stuff > like configuring Apache, adding users, etc. But when I tried to run one in > the terminal, it complained about the lack of an X display. From my limited > experience with SuSE, I'm pretty sure YaST works in either X mode or curses > mode. Could this be what you mean by a "good distro"? ;-) I was curious > what the group thought, since it seems clear that RedHat is steering people > towards X. Maybe they're just working on the assumption that those who would > use those tools come from a Windows world and are used to the hand-holding. > > For the record, vi is my administration tool for everything. :-) One of the > things I like about Linux compared to Windows in a server environment is that > I have the choice of not wasting resources on a graphical interface I'll > rarely if ever see. I ssh around a lot. But I have the potential to be lazy > on occasion, so I was wondering about other tools for administration, which > is what led me to the redhat-config tools, which in turn led me to ask the > question. > > > fish (file system over ssh) > > I wondered why "fish" was chosen as a name for that. Now I see it. :-) > > Ian > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/TMaYSiY+RXI7JS4RAi0FAKCHY4HsR83uJ2dVDuHtxoQ90LuwcwCeMOye > Jf0h7ey4MHXvQxxiBJGyZ5U= > =8UeS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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