[vox-tech] an answer to X11 forwarding with ssh2

[Mark K. Kim]

Or, sometimes you can tell a daemon to re-read the configuration file by
sending it a HUP signal:

   killall -HUP <daemon_binary_name>

-Mark


On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Henry House wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:41:32PM -0800, Robin Snyder wrote:
> > A while back, I posted a question about not being able to forward X11 over
> > ssh2--the display wasn't getting set.  The answer is:
> >
> > 1.  I didn't know that sshd had its own config file, sshd_config, which
> > also has a forward X11 yes/no setting, and
> >
> > 2.  sshd does not get reset when you log out, only when you reboot (or
> > stop and restart ssh with something like /etc/init.d ssh stop and
> > /etc/init.d/ssh start).  Fixing the config file and logging back in again
> > won't cut it.
>
> That is common for daemons. You can start and stop all daemons (in Debian)
> using one command: "/etc/init.d/<program name> restart".
>
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