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RE: Remote tasks sleeping after 'su'
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: "Rob Haines" <hainesr7 at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:55:48 -0500
- Subject: RE: Remote tasks sleeping after 'su'
Rob,
What you describe sounds logical. Remember, it is your username, not root,
that has setup the X tunnelling through ssh. Therefore, it makes sense that
an X client launched by root would not display.
I'm not a great X user, so I could be wrong... but I do think that the above
makes sense.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Rob Haines
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:32 PM
> To: Cygwin Xfree86 Maillist
> Subject: Remote tasks sleeping after 'su'
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Cygwin for a while now but am new to cygwin-xfree. I hope
> this question hasn't been answered before but I did check the archives and
> didn't find anything pertinent.
>
> I use this system to log into other systems (via ssh -X) and have the
> windows displayed on my cygwin-xfree desktop. If I run something as myself
> then everything is fine. If I log in, then 'su' to root, then run
> something
> the window never appears. If I look at 'top' then the task I just
> started is
> flagged as sleeping. This problem does not occur when using the
> putty/exceed
> combination to log in to my remote machine. I haven't tried
> logging straight
> in as root, because our security policy does not allow it. Is this a
> cygwin-xfree issue, or something else?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rob Haines
> --
> hainesr7@hotmail.com
>