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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:56:49 -0400
To: peter waltman <pwaltman AT eecs DOT tufts DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2 contains extra files?
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At 02:32 AM 8/12/2004, you wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:00:00PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>> >I downloaded and installed
>> >http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20040802.tar.bz2
>> >
>> >and was a bit surprised to see that it included files normally in the
>> >w32api and mingw-runtime packages as well as a few other files (and
>> >/bin/dumper.exe which is normally in the cygwin package was missing).
>> 
>> dumper missing is a problem.  The extra files are not.
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>> 
>
>
>there are 2 configurations when I'm ssh'ing into the machine.
>
>1 - I use the windows version of the ssh2 client from www.ssh.com.  X11
>tunneling is a feature which you can either enable or disable (enabled on my
>machine).  the x-server is the pc-xware x-server.  there is no problem when I
>ssh into any of the other server's on my school's network, but I can't determine
>what the local $DISPLAY var is set to.
>
>2 - using another machine with cygwin, I use the startxwin.bat script to start
>the xserver and open a window with a bash shell prompt in it.  again, I have no
>issue with X11 being tunneled if I ssh into any of the other unix servers on our
>shool's network.  the local $DISPLAY var for the cygwin client is set to
>localhost:0.
>
>Both configurations have the same problem where X11 apps launched from the
>client's shell get launched and opened under the x-server running on the machine
>running the cygwin sshd daemon (also launched using the startxwin.bat script).


So this is not a Cygwin specific problem and therefore, off-topic for this 
list.  But, let me ask you this question.  Why does the setting for DISPLAY
seem right to you, given what you're trying to do?  That's the key to the 
problem, no?



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