I have recently installed and configured DB2 8.1 on my SUSE 8.2 distro. DB2 has a gui control center that can only be accessed by issuing the following commands:

xhost +
su - db2inst2
export DISPLAY=:0.0
exit
db2cc

I have done some reading in the MAN pages on xhost and I am little confused. I would like to know if there is a way modify the settings of xhost or xserver to allow users the ability to only issue one command (i.e. db2cc) without keying the xhost information.

I would also like to know more about what the DISPLAY variable means to me.

Thanks,

Basically what happens is that the program
needs to be run as this particular db2user.

However, since you didn't start your xsession
as this user, but rather as your "normal" user,
the other user by default can't display anything
on your xsession.

xhost + will allow ANY host that can network
to you to display stuff on your screen (which is
a bad idea in general :}) ... you can narrow that
down to
xhost +localhost
which will only allow people with accounts on your
machine to abuse your screen.

As for the DISPLAY, same thing applies... it's an
environment variable that tells X-programs where
to send their output. If you only did xhost + in the
script but didn't set display you'd get:
Error: can't open display.

HIH.

Cheers,
Tink

Great! I appreciate your feedback to my questions.

As for the other question (sorry, I got carried away
with the first post ;)) ...

Just put the whole lot of commands into
a text file, call it e.g.
db2cc.sh
and then chmod it
Eh voila, there you go ;)

Cheers,
Tink