On 09 Jun 1997 14:43:36 CDT Chris Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to > monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to > run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any > applications on X via a network connection befor so I thought this > would be interesting. After doing an rlogin and setting the DISPLAY > environvent variable like so: "foo.bar.com:0.0". I ran the procmeter > and it said that it didn't have permission to connect to the X > server. Somewhere there must be a file that I need to grant this > permission in but I am not familiar enough with X to know about > this one and I'm not even sure where to look. Can someone point me > in the right direction.
You need to extract the cookie from the machine you rlog from with: xauth list Pick the line wich mentions your display (like in foo.bar.com:0, not foo/unix:0) and then on the machine you rlog into: xauth add <line> See (1)xauth for details. You can also use ssh which will do this automagically, and will also encrypt (and optionally compress (good on slow lines)) the connections. [ssh is available on the debian-non-US site] Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .