On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > no X11, but i do need it. > > is there a way of getting, say, [c]twm configured remotely?
I don't think you have to. You just have to tell the X programs you want to run on the server to connect to the X server on the machine you're working on. Read the following HOWTO: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Remote-X-Apps.html Suppose you are working on a machine called "desktop.thought.org", and the server is "server.thought.org". You have to set up the X server on desktop.thought.org to accept remote connections using xhost(1) or xauth(1). You have to configure your firewall on desktop of allow connections on tcp/udp ports 6000-6063 from server.thought.org through. Then you should be able to login to the server via ssh, and start e.g. an X terminal on the display of the desktop by giving the following command in the ssh session: xterm -display desktop.thought.org:0 & You could also set the DISPLAY variable on server.thought.org to point to desktop.thought.org:0. That way you don't have to start every X program with the -display argument. > i managed > to have portupgrade finish succesfuully last night without breaking > anything. there were 33 things that failed, 0 skipped, and > More than 450 ports successfully upgraded. i checked with pkgdb > -Favf; it worked. what failed was related to the x11 drivers. AFAIK, you don't need the drivers to do X forwarding. But you _do_ need the X11 libraries and header files to compile X programs. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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