[SunHELP] Again: Xserver connections

James Lockwood sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Feb 16 15:42:42 CST 2001


On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Wolfgang Engelien wrote:

> F.E.: Some users log in through a telnet session
> changes the DISPLAY variable to their computers
> and open a bunch of applications. How can I
> determine which application is sent to which
> computers display?

Assuming you're doing this on a server, one of many ways to accomplish
this is:

articuno% lsof |egrep :600[0-9]

This will show you connections to other systems on ports 6000-6009,
usually used for X servers.

Scanning for the DISPLAY variable in a process environment list is not a
solution.

-James




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