On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:11:25PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > 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. > > IIRC, I was using a -Y switch to ssh.
I just tried ssh -Y with the OpenSSH for Cygwin, and got the same behavior. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
