Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry but there's no way this could be possible. There is SOMETHING you 
> are missing in the whole picture as this really doesn't make sense.  It seems 
> like you were doing "ssh -X localhost" !!   
>
> Did you check your hosts file? Perhaps the hostname you are giving to ssh 
> command is attached to your local ip and you may not be aware of it.
>
> How do you "run" firefox in the remote machine? How are you sure you're not 
> running your local copy of Firefox? 
>
> Jorge
>
>
>  
I agree, this can't be happening.  I still can't explain it though.

- I ssh to the remote machine, look at dates, files, etc.  I'm on the 
right box. 
- I check ~/.mozilla.  It's basically empty, definately no bookmarks
- Run "which firefox"  it shows the correct location, and it's on a 
local drive
- Run firefox, it shows up with the wrong configuration (from the local 
machine).

- I try another program, ksysguard.  It shows correct data from the 
remote box, including 4 cpu's, and that is the only multi-cpu box on my 
network.  This appears to only be happening with the Mozilla stuff, but 
I haven't run enough X programs to be sure.
- I have the correct prompt on the remote machine terminal
- I have no NFS mounts in /etc/fstab, and I've checked the program link 
and paths.  Everything looks fine.

- I tried this with another remote box.  That box is my DNS server and 
default gateway.  The addressing has to be right for me to get to the 
net.  The same thing happens running firefox on that box.

- I ran firefox locally from the former remote host.  It runs fine. 

- Also, I have been running yast from the same session as firefox.  Yast 
runs fine, expects the disk in the remote machine's drive, and updates 
the remote machine.

I will admit it is probably something I am doing wrong, but I have no 
clue right now, and believe me, I looked at everything I could think of 
before posting something this stupid sounding to this list.

As to the last question, everything else I run seems to work fine and 
work as expected.  I'm at the correct prompt, the directory and program 
layouts are correct for that box, everything seems right.

I know very little about networking.  Is it possible that the Mozilla 
programs are somehow communicating over the network to the original shell?

Jim