Re: wrong DISPLAY variable
Darren Tucker <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:55:59 +1100
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.openssh.general |
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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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