Hi Colin, Ismael, thanks very much for the help ... I can see progress now.
> I bet you don't have xbase-clients installed on the remote system. Yeah, the settings of the DISPLAY variable works fine now. rock:~# xterm Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s rock:~# But the login still doesn't work. Somehow the xserver on black is rejecting my requests. AUDIT: Sat Sep 6 18:35:04 2003: 304 X: client 23 rejected from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 > You shouldn't do it like that. This is a common mistake, but it breaks > the scp protocol. Guard the debug message such that it only gets > displayed for interactive shells, something like this: Right. Changed that and it's all working fine now. Thanx again. Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]