[Info-vax] OSes

[Bill Cunningham]

"Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote in message 
news:n7md8u$vrp$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...

> I would suspect that your Xservers by default do not accept connections 
> from anything but localhost. And no, you do not need anything more done 
> for ssh to tunnel. If I remember right, ssh simply notices that you have 
> the DISPLAY variable set to something, so it will setup a tunnel and a 
> fake X server on the remote machine, and just forward the traffic to your 
> local X server as needed.
>
> You don't have to go all basic and start X through startx. If you get it 
> up and running as part of the normal desktop setup, that is just as good.

    Ok where's the DISPLAY variable? I really don't use displays much. What 
do I have to do to VMS? I am getting ready to reinstall from scratch. I will 
set

set xq mac=xx-xx-... as it should be. What do I type after

'shh -X'   ?

Bill