On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > > > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to > > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... > > I just tried that on my sarge system., whose ssh documentation does > mention ssh. But in the new shell > env did not give me an entry for DISPLAY > emacs opened in text mode > xjig said > can't open display '' > Evidently, something more is needed than just ssh -X localhost. > some additional package maybe?
No, odds are sshd is just set to disable X11 forwarding. Add/change the following line X11Forwarding yes in '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' and restart sshd (as root) /etc/init.d/ssh reload (That won't affect any existing ssh sessions.) -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
