On 2002-05-16 22:27 +0000, Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote: > I've been using X forwarding between my 2 Sid computers for a while now > with no problem. However, at some point since my last update (about 3 > weeks ago) X forwarding over SSH seems to have died. I run ssh with the > -X option, and I've checked the xserverrc on both systems to make sure > that -nolisten tcp isn't in there. Everything SEEMS to be set up ok, yet > X forwarding isn't working. $DISPLAY isn't being set when I SSH in, > though it used to before. I haven't tried setting it manually yet > because, I hate to admit it, I'm not exactly sure of the format for a > remote X $DISPLAY. :) Just check /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure you have 'X11Forwarding yes' in there. Then restart sshd and 'ssh -X' should work just fine. Before you issue 'ssh -X <remotehost>' you should have DISPLAY set to something like ':0'. If it's not set, there is no X connection to forward as far as SSH is concerned. After logging in, if X forwarding was enabled, DISPLAY should be something like '<remotehost>:10.0' In any case, you shouldn't need to manually modify the DISPLAY environment variable. And do make sure the '-nolisten tcp' *is* there. Unless you know for sure you need the X server listening to TCP connections, disable it. It is not needed when using SSH with X forwarding. -- Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
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