You can use telnet to check if a server is listening on a specific port. Like this: fvogel@host1 $ telnet host2 22 Trying 172.16.96.1... Connected to .......... Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.4p1 On Thursday 23 June 2005 13:57, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 13:49, dev.loop@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > On 6/23/05, Dan Track <dan.track@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > As an update to the email below, I'd just like to say that what I > > > wan't to achieve is to allow ssh -X to work. > > > > Now, you got me totally confused: Your goal is to have X apps running > > via ssh on a remote desktop, but you are trying to connect via telnet > > ??????? > > I don't get the telnet stuff either... just forget about that Dan. > > Anyway, on the remote host where you'd like to run X applications from > make sure that you have > > X11Forwarding yes > > in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Then just do a 'service sshd restart'. If that > doesn't work, try to give a better description of what you're actually > trying to achieve and how. > > -- > Tarjei
