[nylug-talk] ssh, DISPLAY, mozilla

[Seth Rothenberg]

I have a strange problem.  I tried to ask google,
but google isn't so good with the grammar....

I did ssh -X from ubx to walix, which is on the same LAN.
DISPLAY is set to a localhost:10, which is on the remote host,
tunneled back to the X server local host, right? :-)

well, not only that...but more is tunnelled back....
(see below for verification of differences)

I ran mozilla on walix.
It is clear that what comes up is mozilla
running on ubx - i.e., Home page says
Welcome to Ubuntu 7.10
(walix has RedHat 8 :-)
...and it has featuers installed that I am sure
are not present on walix' version of Mozilla.

Any clues? - A, why?  B, how to get google to explain it?



rothen at ubx:~$ ssh -X walix uname -a
rothen at walix's password:
Linux walix 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 11:57:57 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
rothen at ubx:~$ uname -a
Linux ubx 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
rothen at ubx:~$
rothen at ubx:~$
rothen at ubx:~$ ssh -X walix
rothen at walix's password:
[rothen at walix rothen]$ which mozilla
/usr/bin/mozilla
[rothen at walix rothen]$
[rothen at walix rothen]$ sum /usr/bin/mozilla
60928     6
[rothen at walix rothen]$

rothen at ubx:~$
rothen at ubx:~$ sum /usr/bin/mozilla
28039     9