On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 16:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:08, Les Mikesell wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >I don't know about FC2, but some prior version of Fedora or Red Hat > >> >Linux had X forwarding allowed as default, now it's disabled as > >> > default. You can change it, so all you'd type is "ssh gene@shop" or > >> > just "ssh shop" (if you were logging on remotely as the same > >> > username as locally). > >> > >> I have enabled all the X11Forwarding stuffs. It appears to be being > >> ignored. But as long as the "ssh -X gene@shop" works, its ok by me. > > > >You need 'ssh -Y' for most things now. The documentation on this point > >leaves a lot to be desired. > > > I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that. Frankly, linux documentation is > in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly because of the forking > away from the universal manpage that has been done to the doc format. I > don't know of the times I've needed to look at something in docbook > format, even coming to this list to ask what others are using to > view/print those things, and have been universally ignored, I assume > because everyone is supposed to know WTF a docbook file is. Heck, just a > simple little menu choice called "docbook reader" would suit 99% of this, > but in the 5 years since everyone got on that bandwagon, I've yet to see > a reference that says what is to be used to read them with. Here here! I am coming out of the closet as well. Why not a simple doc-book-reader? I'm sure there is one somewhere, but I am clueless. Ric -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
