Looking for 1-line Command for Remote Xterm

[Matt Stanik]

Hi all,

Let's say I'm working on 'thishost'
I'm trying to find a one-line equivalent for the following:

rlogin thathost
export DISPLAY=thishost:0
xterm

The closest I've come is rsh thathost /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -display
thishost:0
it works, but .profile and .kshrc are not sourced... which is no good.

Thanks,
Matt

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3A353ED6...@ecg.csg.mot.com>,

from "man xterm":

-ls This option indicates that the shell that is started
in the xterm window will be a login shell (i.e., the
first character of argv[0] will be a dash, indicat-
ing to the shell that it should read the user's
.login or .profile).

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[Alan Stange]

Matt Stanik wrote:

I find that doing something like this is also nice:

rsh thathost -n "sh -c "DISPLAY=thishost:0; export DISPLAY; exec xterm
-ls -sb -sl 500 < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1"

If I got all this right from memory, then one is left with nothing
running except the actual xterm binary. No rsh client, no extra shells
anywhere. One can now replace "xterm -options" with any X11 app...

I recall that there is also an Xrsh that does all of this.

[John D Groenveld]

ssh -f thathost ". ./.profile; xterm"

With ssh, DISPLAY is set for you.
John
groe...@acm.org

[Jeff Howie]

Your .profile is only sourced by login shells, so:

$ rsh thathost /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -ls -display thishost:0

Would do the trick.
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thks.jeff

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