Tony_Melia at Dell.com blurted the following on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 02:22:22AM -0500 :
> I would like to automatically set the DISPLAY variable when people login
> with telnet, so if they have an x server running they can just run apps. I
> have no idea how to do this, the closest I can get is 'DISPLAY=`'who | grep
> $USER`'' which returns the line with the clients address as the last column.
> Anybody know how I can strip it down so I am left with just the last column?
I think login propogates and enviroment variable known as REMOTEHOST.
I have seen it used in login scripts before.
Something like
DISPLAY=${REMOTEHOST}
export DISPLAY
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