[TriLUG] Re: Need advise.

[Mike Johnson]

Marty Ferguson [marty.ferguson at pobox.com] wrote:
> Andy,
> 
> Don't bother installing X... Just make sure that
> you have SSH installed.  As of RH 7 .0, the SSH
> rpm takes care of everything.  If you bring  up
> an  Xterm on  your workstation, just SSH over to
> your Oracle server.  THe Xauth MIT-Magic Cookie
> gets set for you, the $DISPLAY variable is set
> to point back to your workstation, and, best of
> all, your entire X session is encrypted over the wire!
> 
> SSH...definitely the way to go.

Um, do you know this for sure?  The last time I
tried to install Oracle over remote X it barfed.
Their installer is java based and doesn't seem to
play well with remote X stuff.  It worked fine
with vnc, though.

Note, however, that you have to install some amount
of X to get xterms...

I know that X forwarding works well over ssh, but
I do not think that the Oracle installer works with
remote X.

Mike
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