[LUAU] Re: Linux networking

[Tom Gordon]

webmaster at hawaiidakine.com wrote:

>
> Hi William,
>
> You can get on the LUAU list from HOSEF website and ask any Linux 
> questions directly to the whole list. There are folks worldwide on our 
> list who are very adept at helping with questions.
>
> Al Plant
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>>>
>>>> Capt. Al,
>>>>  I was on the internet looking at some local linux pages (HOSEF, 
>>>> MPLUG, etc...) and I came across your site.    I just retired from 
>>>> the Navy, and worked at Kunia up 
>>>
>> until August.  They use SUN workstations running Solaris and one 
>> thing we used to do was display a running program from one computer 
>> on a second computer.  This is what I've done thus far.
>>
>> [whjones at ThinkLinux anime]$ xhost + ActLinux
>> ActLinux being added to access control list
>> [whjones at ThinkLinux anime]$ ssh whjones at ActLinux
>> whjones at actlinux's password:
>> Last login: Mon Dec 27 21:58:30 2004 from thinklinux.laptop
>> [whjones at ActLinux ~]$ setenv DISPLAY ThinkLinux:0.0
>> -bash: setenv: command not found
>>
>> This question is for the Fedora gurus.  I used the aliases for the IP 
>> addresses as they are in /etc/hosts, but the 'setenv' command doesn't 
>> exist on my system.  Is that command missing intentionally  from 
>> Fedora?  I installed from the DVD ISO image, but could have missed 
>> it.  Of course, the procedure  above worked on a Solaris box, but 
>> Fedora could be different.  Could  someone point me in the right 
>> direction?  Also, is there any way to map an ssh connection?  In 
>> other words, is there a way to provide an icon for the connection in 
>> the Nautilus file manager that, when clicked on, would prompt the 
>> user for the password, after which the contents would be displayed?  
>> I'm going to try to find the answers on the Net, but any pointers 
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> Mahalo in advance,
>>
>> William Jones
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>>
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To set the DISPLAY (variable), in bash, you can "DISPLAY=bla xcommand" 
to set the the display for an instance or "export DISPLAY=bla" to set 
DISPLAY for the terminal session.

You can make a launcher (icon) for just about any command or script you 
can type in the terminal.

Tom Gordon