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Subject: ssh appear to hang; xauth; X forwarding
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:26:39 +0200
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Recently, probably after upgrading ssh to openssh-3.9p1-2, ssh appeared to hang, whether invoked by itself or as transport for cvs.

Well, the culprit was xauth, or rather X forwarding. Starting ssh invoked xauth which subsequently hung because X wasn't running, even though DISPLAY was defined.

Unsetting DISPLAY if X isn't running will cure the problem.

kind regards
Peter Ring



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