reassign 229547 mozilla-firebird thanks On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:31:38PM -0800, Brandon Davis wrote: > Package: ssh > Version: 1:3.6.1p2-11 > Severity: important > I was setting up cups printing on my server to allow me to print from my > laptop (debian unstable on both). On the laptop I had mozilla-firebird > running to see the cups co\nfiguration on my laptop. The firewall on the > server will not allow me to connect to port 631, so in order to see the > cups configuration on the server I opened an ssh con\nection with X > forwarding (ssh -X servername) from a gnome-terminal. I have ssh > configured on the server for public-key authentication. In the > gnome-terminal connected to\ the server I ran mozilla-firebird to modify > the cups configuration on the server. When the firebird window opened it > contained all of the bookmarks from my laptop, not t\he server, and > localhost:631 connected me to cups on the laptop not the server.
This must be something to do with the way mozilla-firebird starts up: all the mozilla derivatives attempt to find a running instance of themselves and connect to it. Something like that, anyway. > It appears that even though I opened firebird inside the ssh > connection to the server it w\as executed on the laptop instead. It > seems to me that firebird should have been executed on the server not > the laptop and that localhost:631 should have connected me to \the > server. Coincidentally, within the same ssh session I was able to > connect to the servers cups configuration exactly as expected (at > localhost:631) from w3m. Yeah, indeed ssh isn't broken here. (This would be very complicated and strange brokenness in ssh - very hard to achieve even deliberately, in fact.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
