Doh, just in time for me to post another email about this topic. Chalk it up to having the dual handicap of being blind and tired. I set up an alias for root up2date='/usr/sbin/up2date' for root and so now I can just su to root (aliased for me to 'su -'...) and run up2date -fui as usual. This is totally sufficient workaround. Sure beats deciding ahead of time if I want to use up2date or X applications etc, cause you know, I like to think so far ahead.... Thank you much, Jason >>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
