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Re: Tunneling does not seem to work here (newbie)?
- From: <savantsaro at cox dot net>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:13:01 -0400
- Subject: Re: Tunneling does not seem to work here (newbie)?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
>This looks like X11 forwarding works. Maybe DISPLAY is >reset in some login scripts.
>
>what does this report:
>ssh -Y remotehost
>echo $DISPLAY
>
>bye
> ago
I'm sure I added too many exports this time, was just running out of things to try.....
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award@mpeas04 ~
$ echo $DISPLAY
127.0.0.1:0.0
award@mpeas04 ~
$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
award@mpeas04 ~
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
award@mpeas04 ~
$ ssh -Y serverName -l Administrator
Administrator@serverName's password:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Last login: Fri Oct 15 10:53:54 2004
Welcome to Darwin!
serverName:~ administrator$ echo $DISPLAY
serverName:~ administrator$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
serverName:~ administrator$ emacs &
[1] 11223
serverName:~ administrator$
[1]+ Stopped emacs
serverName:~ administrator$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
1485 p1 Ss+ 0:00.22 -bash
11031 p3 S+ 0:00.01 -bash
11209 std Ss 0:00.03 -bash
11223 std S 0:00.01 emacs
serverName:~ administrator$ kill -9 11223
serverName:~ administrator$
[1]+ Killed emacs
serverName:~ administrator$