On Aug 20, 3:01*pm, Niel Lambrechts
wrote:
> On 08/20/2008 07:20 PM, Frank Fegert wrote:
>
> > On 2008-08-20, TsanChung wrote:
> >> bash$ set|grep DISPLAY
> >> bash$ xclock
> >> Error: Can't open display:
>
> > There's your problem. DISPLAY should be automatically set so some-
> > thing like "localhost:$OFFSET.0" by SSHD. So either it doesn't get
> > set in the first place (no xauth or no X11Forwarding) or it's reset
> > by your environment. Check your .profile, .bashrc, etc. and make
> > sure DISPLAY is not unset/overwritten.
>
> It may also help to delete any existing $HOME/.Xauthority file you may
> have. It will be recreated as soon as you log in using SSH if your setup
> is proper.
>
> Similar to the above tip for DISPLAY, you should check if the XAUTHORITY
> or HOME environment variables are changed somewhere.
>
> Also check your client SSH config (ssh_config). i.e. if
> ForwardX11Trusted = no.
>
> I have previously recommended that you should upgrade your SSH, for very
> good reasons.
>
> Here are the steps:
> 1. Download the SSHxxx.BFF file from the IBM website I previously posted
> to a local directory i.e. /tmp/ssh
> 2. Run: cd /tmp/ssh; inutoc .
> 3. Run: smitty install_all -> use . for the directory -> press Esc and 4
> to list the installable file-sets -> press Esc-7 to pick 'OpenSSH' and
> press Enter until it installs.
> 4. Stop (kill) the current sshd. It might be a good idea to keep another
> SSH session open just in case you run into any type of installation
> problem, not that it's ever happened to me.
> 5. Run: startsrc -s sshd
>
> If it still does not work, you need to post your ssh_config and
> sshd_config files.
>
> cheers
> Niel
I downloaded openssh-4.7_new5302.tar.Z from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openssh-aix/
Untarring it get these files, which are not SSHxxx.BFF file.
How to install openssh on AIX 5.3?
$ ls
change_log.txt openssh.msg.ZH_CN
openssh-4.7_new5302.tar.Z openssh.msg.ZH_TW
openssh.base openssh.msg.Zh_CN
openssh.license openssh.msg.Zh_TW
openssh.man.en_US openssh.msg.ca_ES
openssh.msg.CA_ES openssh.msg.cs_CZ
openssh.msg.CS_CZ openssh.msg.de_DE
openssh.msg.DE_DE openssh.msg.en_US
openssh.msg.EN_US openssh.msg.es_ES
openssh.msg.ES_ES openssh.msg.fr_FR
openssh.msg.FR_FR openssh.msg.hu_HU
openssh.msg.HU_HU openssh.msg.it_IT
openssh.msg.IT_IT openssh.msg.ja_JP
openssh.msg.JA_JP openssh.msg.ko_KR
openssh.msg.Ja_JP openssh.msg.pl_PL
openssh.msg.KO_KR openssh.msg.pt_BR
openssh.msg.PL_PL openssh.msg.ru_RU
openssh.msg.PT_BR openssh.msg.sk_SK
openssh.msg.RU_RU openssh.msg.zh_CN
openssh.msg.SK_SK openssh.msg.zh_TW