I've tried that before it doesn't work either.

On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 12:57, Dumas Patrice wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:16:44AM -0500, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have some strange beahvior and I can't figure out what the deal is. 
> > Some of my servers I can ssh to, su to root and tunnel an x program like
> > up2date.  Others won't and give me this error:
> > 
> > X connection to <hostname>:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> > shutdown)
> > 
> > If I connect to the server as root I can tunnel X, just not when I su to
> > root. The servers are both RH 7.2 and are both up to date.  I don't see
> > any reason why they are behaving diffrently. Does anybody know why?
> 
> I haven't a definite answer, but you should try 
> su - instead of su. I know su - emulates a login and su doesn't. For example
> when I do a su LOGNAME is still my user name, with su - it is root. Maybe
> something like that is creating trouble.
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
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