Problems connecting remotely to jtagd running on linux

Just thought I'd post a solution to the problem that I received from Altera as it might be of help to someone:

Need to run this first:

jtagd

and ignore the error it returns:

getpid: Command not found.

Then this works OK:

jtagconfig --enableremote password

The other thing I noted is that jtagd will exit after some minutes if no connections are made and you have to then repeat the above.