[SunRescue] netscape/xlib problem.

[scohen - Stephen Cohen]

Running 'netscape -display your-machines-FQDN:0 &' yields "illegal instruction" on my IPX running Red Hat 6.0 (2.2.5-22 kernel with XFree upgrades from -49 to -52).  The only way it works on my system is to log onto the IPX from the local terminal and run it from there.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Cantrell [mailto:david at wirestation.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 07:13 AM
To: rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] netscape/xlib problem.


Gregory Leblanc said:

>                 When I try to start the /usr/local/netscape/netscape
> executable, it gives me an error like this: Xlib: connection to ":0.0"
> refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> 
> I suspect that this is an xauth thing, but I can't seem to figure out how
> to fix it.  Any pointers?  Thanks,

:0.0 is a local display on the machine you're running netscape on.  If 
you're connecting to that machine via telnet (for instance) you may not 
have permission to access that screen, and you almost certainly don't 
want to anyway.  What you probably want to do is run netscape on the 
remote machine but _display_ it on your _local_ screen.  To achieve 
this do either ...

bash ~david % DISPLAY=your-machines-FQDN:0
bash ~david % export DISPLAY
bash ~david % netscape &

or ...

bash ~david % netscape -display your-machines-FQDN:0 &

At least, both of those work for remotely displaying apps running on my 
Linux and SGI boxen and I see no reason for Sun to behave any 
differently.

Hope that helps, and please forgive me if I completely misunderstood 
the question :-)

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