carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu (07/04/90)
RE: Setting DISPLAY across telnet/rlogin
Both telnet and rlogin preserve the TERM variable (at least in my experience -
maybe it fails in some locations). You can use this fact to pass additional
information along by setting TERM to be something like "real_term@display",
and then having the .login / .profile pick look at TERM, and if it's of this
form, extract the information, set DISPLAY, and fix TERM to be just
"real_term" again. rlogin and telnet can then be aliased/functioned to set
TERM appropriately just before executing the real binary. I have code here
that works under ksh to do this, and it seems to function quite nicely. I
can give you a copy if you'd like.
Alan M. Carroll Barbara/Marilyn in '92 :
carroll@cs.uiuc.edu + This time, why not choose the better halves?
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CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carrollturner@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Steve Turner) (07/06/90)
Since everyone seems to have a different way to do this, I thought I'd
mention the one I found in the standard X distribution:
Under .../contrib/clients/xplaces there is a sh script and man page
for 'rcmd' The script describes itself as:
# This command runs a command remotely in the background, by pointing
# stdout and stderr at /dev/null. (Should we point stdin at /dev/null too?)
# By running this through the Bourne shell at the other end, and
# we get rid of the rsh and rshd which otherwise hand around at either
# end. Hacked from a posting by clyde@emx.utexas.edu to list.xpert
To rlogin, for example, 'rcmd remotehost xterm' works.
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