From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 21 15:22:12 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A8BAD8AFC for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:22:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 422DC9DE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:22:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (user-24-214-48-39.knology.net [24.214.48.39]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u2LFM4ri002934 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:22:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Problems w/ mgdiff across my LAN To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! References: <56ED64B9.2000300@hiwaay.net> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <56F0119B.4010407@hiwaay.net> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:27:33 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56ED64B9.2000300@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:22:12 -0000 On 03/19/16 09:44, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > I am trying to use mgdiff (from ports) to look for differences between > 2 ASCII files (ANSI C, actually). I am logged into the box where the > files reside from this box, running FreeBSD 9.3R, patched up: > > [wam@kabini1, ~, 9:40:46am] 488 % uname -a > FreeBSD kabini1.local 9.3-RELEASE-p33 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p33 #0: Wed > Jan 13 17:55:39 UTC 2016 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > [wam@kabini1, ~, 9:40:47am] 488 % > > On the other box (also FBSD 9.3R, I get: > > [wam@devbox, Vector, 9:36:54am] 734 % xdiff main.c Main.c > Error: Can't open display: localhost:11.0 > [wam@devbox, Vector, 9:37:04am] 735 % which xdiff > xdiff: aliased to mgdiff -args -wB > [wam@devbox, Vector, 9:37:17am] 736 % uname -a > FreeBSD devbox 9.3-RELEASE-p33 FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p33 #0: Wed Jan 13 > 17:55:39 UTC 2016 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > [wam@devbox, Vector, 9:37:27am] 737 % > > I ssh-ed into the other box (devbox) from this box (kabini1) under > tcsh in an rxvt shell. I have been having variations of this problem > for a while, but worked around it by cd-ing to the remote dir from > this box & then mgdiff-ing. I can do that here as well, but that is > clumsy & I suspect that there is a simple bit of pilot error causing > this issue, which I would like to fix :-). Any clues appreciated. TIA > & have a good one. > > *C'mon* !!!! Someone throw me a bone here :-) !!!! I have googled & implemented most of the stuff I found there ('AllowTcpForwarding yes' & 'PermitTunnel yes' in my sshd_config file on the remote box (devbox), localhost def'ns in my /etc/hosts file, a few others) , still nogo. *Any* help appreciated .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.