Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

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Subject: Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?
From: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:06:52 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not
> all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g.
> xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment.
> 
> It used to work.  I don't know what changed for sure.
> 
> Does anybody know what can cause this?

Try to run slogin with extra verbosity "on", e.g.:

slogin -X user@server -vvv"

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón

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