[LUAU] mozilla question

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Tue Jun 8 15:28:36 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:12:21AM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> I use mozilla as my browser/mail client on a redhat 9 machine
> that resides in my office in Hilo. When I'm over here in
> Honolulu, I tunnel the client over ssh to read my mail on my
> laptop. When I start a mozilla browser on my laptop, with the
> mail client on, the process seems to get spawned on my office
> computer, and I end up tunnelling that as well.

Sounds like you ssh'd to your office, started up your mail
client, then mozilla, all from the same shell.

> Can you set it up to not do that, to just tunnel the mail
> client, but then run the browers started on the laptop actually
> on the laptop? I didn't find a reference to it in the manual or
> in the other support doc stuff on the mozilla.org website.

Start mozilla locally before logging into your office system or
use an entirely different shell.

`man ssh` and search for 'X11 and TCP forwarding'

-Vince



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