From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 11:38:50 EDT
We just got a brand new Alphaserver ES80 (running Tru64 5.1b), and I'm busily
trying to configure it as a production machine. One of the things that needs
configuring is SSH.
We have two other machines running SSH and 5.1b, and if I were to ssh2 from one
to the other, my DISPLAY variable would automatically be set for me (if I ssh2
from systemA to systemB, my DISPLAY will be set to something like
"systemB.shubertorg.com:10.0". And all of the X11 applications work just fine.
With this new system, I noticed that the DISPLAY variable is blank when I ssh2
from the other systems to this system, or even from this system to the other
systems (causing a "cannot open display" error when starting X11 apps). It's
like something is missing. I don't recall having to do anything special to the
other systems to get this to work properly. I compared the ssh2_config and
sshd2_config files (with a working system), and they seem to be identical
(including the FORWARDX11 option set to "yes").
One thing I noticed is that this new system seems to be running 5.1b patchkit 2,
while the others are running patchkit1--I'm not sure if that means anything
though.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
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