Re: ssh -X shop problem...

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On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 16:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:08, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 09:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >I don't know about FC2, but some prior version of Fedora or Red Hat
> >> >Linux had X forwarding allowed as default, now it's disabled as
> >> > default. You can change it, so all you'd type is "ssh gene@shop" or
> >> > just "ssh shop" (if you were logging on remotely as the same
> >> > username as locally).
> >>
> >> I have enabled all the X11Forwarding stuffs.  It appears to be being
> >> ignored.  But as long as the "ssh -X gene@shop" works, its ok by me.
> >
> >You need 'ssh -Y' for most things now.  The documentation on this point
> >leaves a lot to be desired.
> >
> I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that.  Frankly, linux documentation is 
> in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly because of the forking 
> away from the universal manpage that has been done to the doc format.  I 
> don't know of the times I've needed to look at something in docbook 
> format, even coming to this list to ask what others are using to 
> view/print those things, and have been universally ignored, I assume 
> because everyone is supposed to know WTF a docbook file is. Heck, just a 
> simple little menu choice called "docbook reader" would suit 99% of this, 
> but in the 5 years since everyone got on that bandwagon, I've yet to see 
> a reference that says what is to be used to read them with.

Here here! I am coming out of the closet as well. Why not a simple
doc-book-reader? I'm sure there is one somewhere, but I am clueless. Ric



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