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Re: wrong DISPLAY variable



On 8/12/10 5:33 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
iqbala@jp2 { ~ }$ ssh -Y hlr-brixuat-01.example.net.
Password:
Last login: Tue Dec  7 17:33:46 2010 from jp2.example.net
[iqbala@hlr-brixuat-01 ~]$ xterm
_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for hostname:6000: Name
or service not known
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hostname:0.0

Most likely something in your shell startup scripts is (re)setting $DISPLAY to the wrong value. sshd will set display numbers of 10 and up (by default, this can be changed in sshd_config via X11DisplayOffset).

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