OK I am trying to run a script on a remote machine. This script will open various X windows and process data all of which has to be done on the **remote** machine. In effect I want the script to behave as if a local user on the remote machine is typing the commands in. My network is locked down so I can't use rsh. I use the command

ssh -x myusername@remotehost /scriptname

when I run the script. The script runs but when the script gets to the point where it attempts to start up my X-windows data processing-program (which I have figured out how to automatically do what I want) I get

Xlib: connection to "unix:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Error: Can't open display: unix:0


I have tried inserting in to the script the following variations

DISPLAY=:0.0
or
DISPLAY=explicitremotehostname:0.0

but to no avail. How do I get these to put up a display on the remote host? In effect how do I get the script to behave as if it is being run by a local user on remotehost.

Thanks

DC

Try running "xhost +localhost" as the user who started the X server.

Thanks for that. I tried that already as a local user on remotehost I still get the same errors.

Interestingly when I ssh in to remotehost from localhost and type

xhost +localhost

or even

xhost +remotehost

I get the following error

xhost: unable to open display ""

I have no idea why that is.

You have to do it as the console user since that user currently "owns" the display. You might try using Xvfb or VNC as an alternate display site, especially if you don't need to see the graphics display.