John Haxby said: > If I read the account below aright, then I think the the problem lies in > the way that up2date is using, or abusing, the DISPLAY environment > variable. I just tried (and failed) to reproduce it, but I think > that's as a result of a flawed test rather than anything else. > > jch Actually it is consolehelper. [whooper@srv0712p whooper]$ ll `which up2date` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 29 08:08 /usr/bin/up2date -> consolehelper [whooper@srv0712p whooper]$ The fix is to either a) not set the DISPLAY unless you need it (by extension, don't do X-Forwarding unless you need it) or b) use another method to get root privileges (sudo and su come to mind) and use /usr/sbin/up2date instead of /usr/bin/up2date. -- William Hooper -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
