Hi,
according to Carl (below), there is a fix for the display variable not
being set correctly. Does anyone know what that is?
"Carl J. Nobile" wrote:
>
> Hi Darcy,
>
> I have found that in many situations the DISPLAY variable is not being
> set correctly. It seems to be a bug, The only way around it is to xhost,
> but that will cause your X11 channel to be encrypted. This doesn't seem
> to work correctly on either ssh-1.2.30 or ssh-2.3.0. I was told that
> there is a fix, but it's not in any released versions yet--I think.
> What's weird is that some people have gotten X11 forwarding to work
> correctly.
>
> Carl
>
> On 04-Jan-01 darcy w. christ wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i'm hoping someone can help me understand this message which is
> > appearing in /var/log/messages (on redhat 7) everytime i connect. i
> > think it may be a reflection of the problem that i am having using X11
> > through ssh. My display variable is not being set.
> >
> > sshd: Setting tty modes failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > i appreciate any help.
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