david sowerby wrote: > > While trying to be smart I closed port 6000, thinking this would just shut > down x's network capabilities (I'm not on a network). I added "-nolisten tcp" > to /etc/X11/Xserver and sure enough it closed port 6000 and x won't run using > starx. I can start the xserver by giving the path on the command line and it > starts, but no 'wm' of course. Running startx just gives me an error: > -X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: erno = 2 > I read man pages and can't figure out how to fix this, /etc/services didn't > have any mention of X or port 6000, is this why startx won't work? Or did I > screw something else up. Can someone help me unscrew this, please? I'll try > "ipchains" instead, :-) Thanks in advance, -------------dave
quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the error makes me believe more) that X uses unix sockets to communicate making it (as far as running X on a local machine) immune to ipchains rules. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
