Initiating a remote X session

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> We've just had a look at cygwin-xfree and are very impressed. However, 
> we'd like to bundle it for our users so that we have a some pre-defined 
> 'sessions' available e.g. connect to a Unix host, run SAS then have the 
> output sent to an cygwin-xfree server. Unix commands are not the forte 
> of most of our users.
> 
> This is fine with a static IP address  - we would launch a program which 
> does something like:
> 
> rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY <ipaddress>; /opt/SAS82/sas "

> So ideally we would like something similar to this in cygwin-xfree :
> 
> rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"

First try:
MYIP=`hostname -i`  rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"

but hostname -i does not work on cygwin. But maybe the name of the host is 
sufficient
MYIP=`hostname`  rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"

Or even better, Use ssh:

DISPLAY=localhost:0 ssh -X <host> -l <username> "/opt/SAS82/sas"

ssh will take care of setting the remote DISPLAY and all transferred 
data is sent via the ssh tunnel.

bye
	ago
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