Hello all Bumped into something I needed to do this morning, thought others may be interested. I needed to get an accurate count of how many 15 inch monitors I had on my LTSP network. One can, of course, get this from xdpyinfo, but I can't ssh into clients to do this. What to do, what to do... Well, of course, what I need to do is set my $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY environment variables correctly, so I can run xdpyinfo. But, how to find out who's on what terminal? Well, since everyone runs metacity as a window manager: pgrep metacity returns a list of process id's. From there, we can look in /proc/<pid>/environ, and get some more info! But hold on: cat /proc/3660/environ returns: SSH_CLIENT=192.168.0.229 443422USER=foobarMAIL=/var/mail/foobarGNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-awvD15/socketSSH_AGENT_PID=3510 etc. Environment variables are null terminated! So, how to get around that? As usual, there's a quick easy way to do it: tr to the rescue: cat /proc/3660/environ | tr '\0' '\n' SSH_CLIENT=192.168.0.229 4434 22 USER=foobar MAIL=/var/mail/foobar GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-awvD15/socket etc. Hey! Fit for using with eval! Here's the whole script, just for fun. #!/bin/bash for PROC in $(pgrep metacity); do eval $(cat /proc/$PROC/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep SSH_CLIENT | awk '{print $1}') eval $(cat /proc/$PROC/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep USER) export DISPLAY=$SSH_CLIENT:6 export XAUTHORITY=/usr/legal/home/$USER/.Xauthority echo -n ${USER} xdpyinfo | grep dimension done Hope someone finds this useful. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die Systems Department | even the undertaker will be sorry." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"