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From: ajd@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Ashley Dreier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: setting REMOTEHOST on rlogins
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Date: 13 Jun 91 06:14:05 GMT
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karl@spruce.gsfc.nasa.gov (karl anderson) writes:

>I'm just getting acquainted with SGI machines after using Suns alot.
>I see that when I rlogin to one of our Irises, an environment variable
>named "REMOTEHOST" is set to the name of the machine I'm logging in
>from.  Is this something unique to IRIX?  I'd love to be able to do 
>that on my Suns - can anyone tell me how?  Please answer by email,
>as I don't ordinarily take this group.  TIA.

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I'd like to know that too...
It's very helpful when trying to run X-windows applications
remotely. Presently I'm using a combination of 'finger', 'awk'
and 'tty' to work out where I logged in from
in order to set my DISPLAY variable.
Either email or post. I'm not fussy.

	Ash
	(ajd@cs.mu.OZ.AU)