[Wylug-help] X over ssh

[Don Magee]

Thanks for the response guys.

I've run ldd and all of the libraries appear to be present. From the man
page it seems that -r will identify any missing dependencies.

The actual error message is:

(ethereal:31478): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

(sorry - I should have put that in the original email)

The /etc/X11 directory is present, so there seems to be at least a
skeletal X system installed. So is it a configuration problem? If it is
I need help. X configuration files don't make much sense to me.

I would like to have ethereal running in real time. It's useful to watch
  for unsolicited packets going out over the internet when you install
software on some operating systems.


Don Magee




Jim Jackson wrote:
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> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Don Magee wrote:
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>>Any X experts out there. I am trying to get ethereal to work on a comms
>>box that doesn't have X installed. The method is to use ssh -X to get
>>ssh to carry the X protocol data to the machine with the gui. If I run
>>ethereal (or any other gui proces) this way on a remote box with X
>>installed it all works fine.
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>>So the question is what is the minimal X installation required to get it
>>to work. The comms box has a small disk so I don't want to install any
>>more stuff than I have to.
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> run ldd on the ethereal binary. It will show all the library depedancies.
> Load those libs.
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> An X application needs all the relevant X client libraries to work.
> What you don't need is the X server running - you are using the Xserver on
> the machine you initiate the ssh -X command!
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>>I'm running Fedora 4 and 5 on the boxes concerned.
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>>Don Magee
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