[27013] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.4.32: ssh, rasmol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Dec 1 14:19:28 2006
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To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:19:08 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>A Google search revealed that rasmol apparently tries to use
>X11 shared memory in this case, i.e. incorrectly assuming a
>local connection (because $DISPLAY begins with "localhost:"),
>resulting in the failure. If rasmol has an option (or an alternate
>binary) which disables shared memory, the wrapper might
>invoke this for an ssh session (e.g. when $SSH_CLIENT is set).
>Otherwise, a workaround might be for the wrapper to change a
>DISPLAY setting of "localhost:..." to "127.0.0.1:...".
Thanks a lot- I used the second option. I'm not exactly clear on why
"localhost:..." is different from "127.0.0.1:..." but the hack works...
Alex
