On Wed, March 19, 2008 12:04 pm, John Oliver wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:59:16AM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> John Oliver wrote: >> >I'm using PuTTY to ssh into a CentOS 5 (Final) machine and forward X >> >back to the Windows machine. This works... I can launch an xterm and >> it >> >pops up (using Cygwin). But Firefox does not... it sits at the command >> >line for a few seconds and exits. Here's the result of a strace: >> > >> >http://www.sdsitehosting.net/jnojr/firefox.log >> > >> >Any ideas on what's going wrong? >> >> Hmmmm, when I use Firefox, IIRC, I had to use a -X or -Y switch to get >> past some silly X security thing. >> >> I don't know what the equivalent in Putty would be. > > A switch to Firefox? I'm already using the equivalent of a -X (to ssh) > with PuTTY. > >
Just brainstorming (always a risk with a brain like mine), but have you tried ssh from a Linux term (under X11 with -X, of course)? Maybe it's a putty limitation. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
