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RE: Initiating a remote X session
- From: "Andrew Braverman" <abraverman at itms dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <bszk at wright dot aps dot uoguelph dot ca>, <bo at uoguelph dot ca>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:25:37 -0500
- Subject: RE: Initiating a remote X session
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I would also suggest ssh tunnels for what you are trying to do. That is
what I do myself. If you
really do not want to do that, a replacement for
MYIP=`hostname -i` rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0;
/opt/SAS82/sas"
might be
MYIP=`ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $NF}'` rexec <host> -l
<username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"
This assumes that there is only one network interface on the machine and the
machine has all the requisite programs installed. I know that the Windows
9x versions had a program called winipcfg, which could not be used this way.
I am not sure if they had ipconfig in those versions and if not, when it
started.
Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:41 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: bszk@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca; bo@uoguelph.ca
> Subject: Re: Initiating a remote X session
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > We've just had a look at cygwin-xfree and are very
> impressed. However,
> > we'd like to bundle it for our users so that we have a some
> pre-defined
> > 'sessions' available e.g. connect to a Unix host, run SAS
> then have the
> > output sent to an cygwin-xfree server. Unix commands are
> not the forte
> > of most of our users.
> >
> > This is fine with a static IP address - we would launch a
> program which
> > does something like:
> >
> > rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY <ipaddress>;
> /opt/SAS82/sas "
>
> > So ideally we would like something similar to this in cygwin-xfree :
> >
> > rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"
>
> First try:
> MYIP=`hostname -i` rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv
> DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"
>
> but hostname -i does not work on cygwin. But maybe the name
> of the host is
> sufficient
> MYIP=`hostname` rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY
> $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"
>
> Or even better, Use ssh:
>
> DISPLAY=localhost:0 ssh -X <host> -l <username> "/opt/SAS82/sas"
>
> ssh will take care of setting the remote DISPLAY and all transferred
> data is sent via the ssh tunnel.
>
> bye
> ago
> --
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>