[Wylug-help] Sun and Linux ... Help please

Dave Whiteley d.l.whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk
Fri Nov 28 11:41:57 GMT 2003


On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:33:37AM +0000, Jason Lander wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> >    DISPLAY=mybox:0.0; export DISPLAY
>
> Don't do that bit.... SSH sets DISPLAY for you to something like
> localhost:<nn> where <nn> which is the local side of an SSH tunnel to your
> X server.
>
Errrr.

Ok, so I log out of the sun, log in again and try

   admintool

and it just reports

   Error: Can't open display:

Ta, Next?

Dave



> - Jason
>
>

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