Hello all,

This is a continuation of my post to the networking forum:


See here

because it has now become more of a general issue I think (and I got no clues in networking).

Anyway can anybody tell me how to change the DISPLAY environment variable in redhat 9?

I want to change it from localhost:10.0 to 192.168.0.1:10.0 or :10.0

the command setenv does not work in bash, so if I change to csh and then update env with

setenv DISPLAY 192.168.0.1:10.0

or

setenv DISPLAY :10.0

it appears to change the variable but only lasts until I exit csh, then when I check env in bash the DISPLAY value has gone back to localhost:10.0 ??

I tried export also, that didnt seem to work either...

Does anyone know what might be happening?

Thanks

The bash equivalent is:
export DISPLAY=192.168.0.1:10.0

or

DISPLAY=192.168.0.1:10.0
export DISPLAY

Don't force it - SSH automatically sets the $DISPLAY variable when it does X forwarding, and if that's not happening then I would check that the system SSH config is OK, and that you don't have a ssh_config in your home directory to override the defaults. There's no reason why you can't reinstall SSH to get a clean setup.

X forwarding definitely works out of the box on Fedora Core 1 & 2, without requiring -X to force it.

I notice that you specify csh, rather than bash. You could try setting up a clean account with bash, just in case the environment variable handling in csh is not working right. I doubt that many people test csh on RH...