Re: Servers with X.

[Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>]

Thanks Jeff,

Yeah I though of X forwarding with SSH but I was under the wrong impression
I needed an X server on both machines.

Thanks for clearing that up ..

Cheers
Rudi.


Jeff Waugh wrote:

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:28, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
  

Is it bad practise to use X on your Debian ISP/Hosting machines ?
Here I have 4 boxes all without X. I've always been of the impression
X on servers was not good.
    

It's not a terrible thing to do, unless you forget to correctly firewall
your machines. :-)

  

I have one box, a database server - PostgreSQL, which has a cool TCL 
monitoring app.
I'm interested in using. This GUI app. monitors server load and running 
queries etc.
I'll need to install X in order to use it - which I'm not sure is such a 
good idea.
    

You don't need to install an X server on the local machine to use it. If
you install the tcl app, and ssh to the box using X forwarding (-X), you
can display the program on your own local X server.

[ desktop ]   -->   [ firewall ]   -->   [ db-server ]
 X server     ssh                  ssh    no X server

Fully encrypted, secure access to X software on your db-server, without
running (or even having) a full X server on the machine. :-)

- Jeff