[Cialug] SSH annoyance

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2009-02-27 at 16:19:46, Nathan Stien wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
>> I think the problem has to do with the DISPLAY variable. The SSH
>> that comes with Lenny mangles that variable in an odd way. On my
>> local machine, DISPLAY is set to ":0.0". When i ssh to somewhere
>> else it is set to something like "localhost:10.0". But with each new
>> connection to a remote machine, the "10" is incremented. I no longer
>> have a machine with X and the old SSH available to me to see what
>> the older (correct) behavior is.
>
>I think this is the only behavior I've ever known about, and I've been
> doing X11 over ssh for about 9 years.

That could be. I've never really paid attention to the DISPLAY variable 
since X11 forwarding always just worked before. I'm just trying to 
narrow down where the problem is.

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