From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 19:11:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BEE1065673 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:11:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C038FC18 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:11:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D783481B; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:11:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-76-26-198-188.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [76.26.198.188]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C6B174C; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:11:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LI6TX-0006a8-00; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:11:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:11:27 -0500 From: stan To: Glen Barber Message-ID: <20081231191127.GA25246@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Glen Barber , Free BSD Questions list References: <20081231173517.GA22363@teddy.fas.com> <1230745308.28408.2.camel@orion> <20081231175429.GB22662@teddy.fas.com> <1230746298.28408.5.camel@orion> <20081231180252.GD22662@teddy.fas.com> <1230748343.28408.10.camel@orion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1230748343.28408.10.camel@orion> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 14:07:42 up 233 days, 20:30, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.07, 0.02 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: ssh and X11 problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:11:29 -0000 On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:32:23PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, stan wrote: > > On the FreeBSD machine? I may be confused, but I think that on the FreeBSD > > machine the "client" tassk (eg xclock) is run, and it is pointed to the > > server on the machine that I am connecting _from_. Am I confused? > > > > The task runs on the host machine (using the Xserver) and is forwarded > over SSH to the client machine. The "client task" you refer to is on > the "host" machine. > The terms sever, and client are backwards from the intuitve expectaion in the X world. The "server" is the process (X) taht actually updates the screen with graphics (eg draw box). The "client" is the process that wisfes to access the serrver to put somehting on the screen (eg xclcok). So, in this case the "server" is on the Linux machine, and the client(s0 are on the FreeBSD machine. For the record, I solved the problem. Thier was no "hostname" entry in /etc/rc.conf. hostname returned nothig. Fixing this, and rebooting cured this problem. Thaks to veryone for making me think this through. Now, if somebady cna just give me a clue on the scanner issue (see seperate thread). -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.