[SunHELP] $DISPLAY for root

[David Baldwin]

I forgot to mention that this is local.  Logged into cde and open a
console and su - to anyone else and no $DISPLAY.
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: my daily account [mailto:steve at lucifer.velosystems.net]=20
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 5:37 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] $DISPLAY for root


It sounds like you don't have the DISPLAY env variable set and/or no
local X=20
server running, like Exceed.=20
Try setenv DISPLAY your.local.ip.address:0.0 if you're telnetting in.
Seems to=20
me that shouldn't be necessary when ssh'ing in. I have been wrong
before.



>Hi,
>When I "su -" to any user the display is not set.
>I can't remember if this was happening always but I started noticing it
>after installing ssh and enabling X11 forwarding.
>Note: this happens even when ssh is not in use.
>Thanks for any help or suggestions, always appreciated.
>=20
>Dave Baldwin



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