Re: pgaccess failed, used to work

On 14 Feb 2002, tony wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 07:45, Holger Marzen wrote:
>
> > It seems that you did a "su" or "telnet" to your local or another
> > machine and then started pgaccess. Either your DISPLAY variable isn't
> > correct (it should be something like 192.168.0.3:0 - ipaddress of the
> > machine where your X-server runs and a display number, eg 0 for the
> > first X-server) or you forgot to issue a "xhost +xxx" where xxx is the
> > name or the ip address of the machine running pgaccess.
> >
> > It is no pgaccess problem. xclock won't work, either. I recommend using
> > ssh with enabled X11-forwarding, that does the job of setting DISPLAY
> > and permissions automagically.
>
> And via ssh? I can't ssh into the machine running pgaccess (port 22 on
> the router is forwared to my server) so I ssh into the server then into
> the workstation.
>
> Any clues on the DISPLAY variable to give for that???

It is usually done automagically. Be sure to turn X11 forwarding on, in
every ssh_config and every sshd_config.

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