[98221] in RedHat Linux List
Re: X -broadcast ???!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale E. Reed Jr.)
Sat Nov 7 18:57:52 1998
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 11:05:18 -0800
From: "Dale E. Reed Jr." <daler@iea-software.com>
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Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I have two machine running RH5.1. One of'em is a PII400+lots of RAM+lots
> of programs. The other one is a P75+reasonable RAM+bare Linux+X.
>
> I'd like to run X on P75 and have it managed by the PII. I have tried
> "X -query PII.IP", and "X -broadcaast". Using either of them X starts, I
> get the `salt&pepper' background and nothing else. Looks to me that the
> PII does not answer any of the calls (although there is nothing in
> /var/log/messages nor in /var/log/secure). BTW, I can run startx locally
> on the P75, change xhost, telnet to the PII, and run any X program; but
> that's *not* what I want :-(
>
> I guess it's only a matter of changing a configureation file on the PII to
> honour remote X-management request. An ideas??!!
Take a look at xdm. I believe it handles xdcmp requests. On my RH5.1
boxes, it is not started by default (and you must start it as root). I
just started it on one of them and using a PC X server, I could do an
XDCMP direct query and get a login for the machine.
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Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea-software.com)
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