Aaron Epps wrote:
> After a clean install of Nevada b86, I setup a user account, logged in,
> opened a terminal, ran "su -" to change to root and then ran the following
> command...
>
> # /usr/sadm/bin/smc &
>
> The application failed to start, complaining about the DISPLAY environment
> variable. Anyone seen something like this before? I don't have the exact
> error message, will get it and reply to this post with it later. Do I simply
> have to do something like
>
> set DISPLAY=:0
Yes - that's pretty much the way X has worked on all Linux & Unix'es
for the past 20 years. You need to set the DISPLAY environment
variable to :0, using either:
DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY
setenv DISPLAY :0
depending on what shell you use (bourne style or csh style).
You'll also need to, in a shell running as you:
xhost +si:localuser:root
to give root permission to display on your screen.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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