Martin Mielke
I've been administering UNIX systems for years now but I've never found something like (for tcsh) 'setenv AUDIO remotehost' (without the quotes). The underlying idea was to play a CD on a remote CDROM drive and hear it on another machine... weird, eh?! :-)
You are by far not the only one who had this idea ;-) However, it won't work. All you do is to set the value of the environment variable AUDIO, but this has no effect unless a program uses this variable. With DISPLAY this works because X applications evaluate the environment variable DISPLAY to determine the X server to connect to. But while we have X graphics, there is no equivalent for audio. To work with something like `export AUDIO=remotehost` you would need a protocol for remote audio playback, a server on the remote host and client applications that respect the variable AUDIO. I don't know of such a solution, but may be someone implemented something like this. Otherwise might be a more viable aproach to build scripts that read the audio data from the CD and pass them through a ssh/rsh connection to a player on the remote host, although that would be far from perfect. Eilert -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eilert Brinkmann -- Universitaet Bremen -- FB 3, Informatik eilert@informatik.uni-bremen.de - eilert@tzi.org - eilert@linuxfreak.com http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~eilert/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq