But you implied that it was working until the local $DISPLAY value
changed to the new launchd format. I still don't see how that has any
effect on what remote display strings look like.
On 5/2/08, Robert Tillyard <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 2 May 2008, at 15:42, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Robert Tillyard
> > <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> I use rexec to get the remote applications to run which works
> >> pretty well,
> >> however, I'm currently having to hard code the DISPLAY to <my IP>:0.0
> >> because the remote systems don't understand the launchd style
> >> DISPLAY.
> >
> > I don't understand. How do the remote systems deal with even a
> > non-launchd-style *local* DISPLAY value, e.g. just plain :0 without a
> > hostname? Something must already be translating that somewhere.
> >
> > Why not use ssh instead of rexec, with its X11 tunnelling that
> > automatically sets the remote DISPLAY appropriately?
> >
> > --
> > Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
>
> At present I am hard coding the DISPLAY to their IP address with :0.0
> tacked on, so for my computer that would be 172.16.1.1:0.0 which the
> remote end does understand.
>
> Some of the remote systems are quite old and don't all have ssh and in
> order to use ssh I need to get the users user name and password into
> the command line but there is no -password option to ssh and even if
> there was another user could see the password by doing a ps.
>
> I'm hoping that it is easier to find a valid DISPLAY that a remote
> host will recognise that it is to convert the application to use ssh.
> If that's not possible then I will have to restrict the Macs to have
> only one user at a time and if X11 crashes they'll have to reboot it
> but I'd like to be more friendly than that if I can.
>
> Regards, Rob.
>
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