ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread stan
I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors: usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name unix:10.0 in remove command /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad display name unix:10.0 in add command And I cannit get ssh to foward the X

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors: usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name unix:10.0 in remove command /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad display name unix:10.0 in add

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread stan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors: usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name unix:10.0 in remove command

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors: usr/local/bin/xauth:

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Boosten
Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the following errors:

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I get the

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread stan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:58:18PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh from a Linux box to it I

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Boosten
On 31 dec 2008, at 19:01, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:54 -0500, stan wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 12:35 -0500, stan wrote: I just built a new 7.1 machine, and when I ssh

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: No, Stan is right; an X server is only needed on the machine that actually hosts the display. The xauth error message are indicating the problem, but I don't know what they're telling us. The hostname should probably be localhost,

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, stan wrote: On the FreeBSD machine? I may be confused, but I think that on the FreeBSD machine the client tassk (eg xclock) is run, and it is pointed to the server on the machine that I am connecting _from_. Am I confused? The task runs on the host machine

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread stan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:32:23PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, stan wrote: On the FreeBSD machine? I may be confused, but I think that on the FreeBSD machine the client tassk (eg xclock) is run, and it is pointed to the server on the machine that I am