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From: Steven Ihde <sihde@hamachi.us>
To: 3992@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3992: emacsclient and ssh on MacOS X
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:38:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <746F3247-3F89-4BF3-A513-9F52D5DBE1B2@hamachi.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <700e2ca10907310105l36c6397bxbca15cad3ddd3477@mail.gmail.com>


I experienced this problem too.  I found that in my case the problem  
was caused by the setting of $TMPDIR on OS X.

When logging in at the desktop, $TMPDIR is set by launchd to some  
directory under /var/folders.  This doesn't happen when logging in via  
ssh.  Thus, emacsclient on an ssh session is unable to find a server  
started under a desktop session, because they communicate through a  
unix socket located under $TMPDIR.

To fix this, add something like the following to your .profile  
or .bashrc so it is executed when logging in via ssh:

if [ -z "$TMPDIR" ]; then
   export TMPDIR=`getconf DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR`
fi

This will set TMPDIR to the same per-user directory as when logging in  
on the desktop.

This fixed the problem for me.







      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-12 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31  8:05 bug#3992: 23.1.50; [Cocoa Emacs] emacsclient can't find server via ssh bread
2009-08-01  5:46 ` bug#4001: " bread
2010-07-12 20:38 ` Steven Ihde [this message]

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