In this case the export DISPLAY IP is my desktop running the X server. It appears to me that xauth is not compiled. So I get a message about xauth, but I do get the X window, so it is working.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 6/7/2013 at 10:10 AM, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > > Going back to the /bin/sh shell I was able to > > > > >export DISPLAY=172.16.0.6:0.0 > > >/usr/lpp/java/J6.0/bin/java EmptyFrame1 > > > > And I got a blank window to pop-up on my Xwindows server. > > Is that the IP address of your MVS system, or your desktop? If it's your > desktop, then you aren't doing X11 forwarding over SSH. > > Normally, when using X11 forwarding over SSH with xauth, your DISPLAY > variable gets set automatically to something like: localhost:10.0 > > If you don't have xauth on your MVS system, that will cause problems, > forcing you to do that export command, but it means you're not really doing > what you think. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
