On 8/12/10 5:33 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
iqbala@jp2 { ~ }$ ssh -Y hlr-brixuat-01.example.net. Password: Last login: Tue Dec 7 17:33:46 2010 from jp2.example.net [iqbala@hlr-brixuat-01 ~]$ xterm _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for hostname:6000: Name or service not known xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hostname:0.0
Most likely something in your shell startup scripts is (re)setting $DISPLAY to the wrong value. sshd will set display numbers of 10 and up (by default, this can be changed in sshd_config via X11DisplayOffset).
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