Jason Montleon said: > > > 'up2date-nox -fui' / 'up2date -fui --nox' dies if you have an ssh session > open with X11 forwarding enabled with no X server running. I think the > userhelper/consolehelper program is croaking because it cannot open a > window > on the X server to ask for a password. It happens whether run as a user > who > must be prompted for the root password or run after 'su' to root. su works as long as you run the connect program. /usr/bin/up2date is a link to consolehelper, /usr/sbin/up2date is the real program. Unless you run 'su -' to get root's path then /usr/bin comes before /usr/sbin (and sbin isn't in the path by default, IIRC). -- William Hooper -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
