Why won't linuxconf -display foo.bar.ie:0.0 & work?
The user is logged into an RH5.2 box from a PC, running
Reflection X, which we have used successfully for remote
management many times running against Suns and Alphas.
xhost is therefore presumably set correctly, and the
use is logged inwith a userid whose privs are set to
allow use of linuxconf and to become superuser.
$ linuxconf -display foo.bar.ie:0.0 &
[1] 21319
$ <user hits CR>
[1] Segmentation fault linuxconf -display foo.bar.ie:0.0 (core dumped)
$ su
Password:
# linuxconf -display foo.bar.ie:0.0 &
[1] 21641
# <user hits CR>
** ERROR **: sigsegv caught
remadmin (GUI frontend) exiting abnormaly
[1]+ Exit 255 linuxconf -display foo.bar.ie:0.0
#
Is linuxconf crocked, or is there some additional layer
of protection going on here? This is going to kill Linux
as a server OS here if this doesn't work.
///Peter
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