From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 23 17:22:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA10352 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 17:22:26 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA10343 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 17:22:23 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA03643; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:40:04 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510240010.JAA03643@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:40:03 +0930 (CST) Cc: kaleb@x.org, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510231825.LAA11356@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 23, 95 11:25:03 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 965 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > I had tried that and it didn't make any difference with the BSD 2.0b1, > > I still got an "unable to open display" error. :-( ... > We already know there are differences in the way the environment > code works, and you are highly dependeint on that code. > > Have you tried it with an explicit "-display" argument instead of > relying on the environment? FWIW, Terry, DISPLAY=fqdn:0.0 doesn't work, but DISPLAY=1.2.3.4:0.0 _does_ work. I'd suspect that it was a resolver problem, only URL's are resolved fine 8( > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[