On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, greg wm wrote: >> when you run "firefox http://domain.com", how does it communicate with >> the firefox instance already running? If its using sockets, perhaps >> you can use ssh and port forwarding to tunnel things through to the >> system that firefox is running on. > > well vnc is running via ssh and port forwarding, and firefox was > launched inside there, but it's compelling to think that just specifying > another port to be forwarded could open a channel to firefox. do you > see clear how that would actually work? Can you run a remote procedure call (RPC)? I think there are ways to do it with SSH without having to code it from scratch. If you are C programmer, there's always this: man rpc man rpc_secure Mike