Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-06 Thread office
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Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Douglas Bates
Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using > only the ssh version: ... > 2. Using ssh not su > === > % ssh -l root localhost > > # xterm & That latter version can be shortened to % ssh -f -l root loc

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using only the ssh version: 1. Su and $XAUTHORITY environment variable == % echo $DISPLAY :0 % su - root # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~hessu/.Xauthority # xterm & 2. Using ssh

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >Check out xauth. > >You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the >X server, so that it can share it. For example: > >$ su ># xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority Only don't do this in your own home directory: I just found that this co

Re: a MANPATH problem

1998-02-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dave Mallery wrote: >when Xman comes up, it does not see my MANPATH variable (so it seems) >and can only display the pages located in /usr/man. Set and export MANPATH in .xsession or .xinitrc (.xsession is used when you log in through xdm, .xinitrc when you used startx). If you want the chang

a MANPATH problem

1998-02-04 Thread Dave Mallery
hi when Xman comes up, it does not see my MANPATH variable (so it seems) and can only display the pages located in /usr/man. /home/dmallery>echo $MANPATH /usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man /home/dmallery> also, i have this problem when running emacs on an xterm in SU: /home/dmallery>>emacs Xlib: connecti