[Gllug] Cygwin problems or X problems?

[Robert P. McKenzie]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 11:11, farnsaw at stonedoor.com wrote:
> 
>>Quoting Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk>:
>>
>>>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.
> 
> 
>>Adrian,
>>  No suggestions on how to get it back without a reboot, however, you could
>>use dyndns.org to get a domain name for the server with a dynamic IP.  Then
>>run one of the clients that frequently (and on boot) check the IP of the
>>machine and report it to dyndns.org to update the DNS record for that box. 
>>This would allow you to always[0] reach the box via a "static" domain name.
>>
> 
> 
> I have an address registered with dyndns but havenever been able to understand 
> how their configuration works, and obviously, if it fails on reboot now I am 
> stuffed :(

Do you not have any other way ontot he machine?  Can you not SSH into the machine?


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