Re: lacking authority

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On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:31:41PM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
>> My admin suggested One Hell of a Workaround: `unsetenv DISPLAY`. That
>> surely handles the timeout and is especially useful in scripts 
>> running bk.
>> Somewhat tiring in interactive sessions though.

> If you're not using csh, then you can unsetenv for a single command:
>
>   % DISPLAY= bk pull
>   ...

And whether you're using csh or not, you can use "env DISPLAY= bk pull".

If you're doing it a lot, an alias or function seems indicated.

Or go into the source and fix it so it doesn't fuck around with 
$DISPLAY until it's ready to use it for something.

• dom (Dominic Mitchell) 15:24 on 10 Jan 2007
  • Peter da Silva 15:49 on 10 Jan 2007
    • Martin Ebourne 16:04 on 10 Jan 2007
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    • Yossi Kreinin 16:10 on 10 Jan 2007
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  • Yossi Kreinin 15:54 on 10 Jan 2007
    • A. Pagaltzis 21:24 on 10 Jan 2007
• David King 17:58 on 10 Jan 2007
  • Peter da Silva 18:04 on 10 Jan 2007
• Nicholas Clark 12:49 on 11 Jan 2007
  • Yossi Kreinin 13:22 on 11 Jan 2007
  • Smylers 14:19 on 11 Jan 2007
    • Nicholas Clark 14:22 on 11 Jan 2007
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    • A. Pagaltzis 14:27 on 11 Jan 2007

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