[Gllug] Cygwin problems or X problems?

[Robert P. McKenzie]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> I using cygwin over SSH to remotely operate kmail and, after some sort of 
> freeze/crash with an X app I am having all sorts of problems.
> 
> Essentially I can no-longer paste from the windows box into the X apps. I acn 
> longer even launch oo writer by clicking on attachments - it gives me a 
> message that klauncher can not be contacted by DCOP.
> 
> The SSH server is 300 miles away and if I reboot it will be assigned a new IP 
> address and I won't know what that is!

While it's not answer to your X problem, you may want something like this in one 
of the start up files on the system:

lynx -dump http://www.whatismyip.com | grep "Your IP is" | awk '{print $4}' | 
mail -s "New IP address" youraddress at blah.com

It's simple and will send you an email..

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