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From: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X programs to access displays on remote machines
Message-ID: <3346@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Mar-87 09:04:23 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.3346
Posted: Sat Mar 14 09:04:23 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Mar-87 04:49:43 EST
References: <8703102134.AA00474@wobegon.silvlis.com>
Reply-To: bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield)
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science
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Summary: use xhost

In article <8703102134.AA00474@wobegon.silvlis.com> arm@wobegon.UUCP (Alan Michels) writes:
>	Call this machine "mya"
>
>	On the other machine, call it "myb", I try to do the following
>	to run the clock remotely:
>		% setenv DISPLAY mya:0
>		% xclock
>
>	This dies with "XIO: Broken pipe"

The key is:

mya% xhost myb

Then you can say things like:

mya% rsh myb -n /usr/new/xload mya:0 &
mya% rsh myb -n /usr/new/xterm -ls -n myb mya:0 &
-- 
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cb{osgd,att}!osu-eddie!bob
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