I broke x

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 lin

I fscked up X

Ok I really screwed it up this time. I was trying to turn off port 6000 by adding "-nolisten tcp" to /etc/X11/Xserver ie. /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 -nolisten tcp console Thinking this would close only X networking (duh!) well it did turn off the port and now startx won't (startx that is) I get: -X11T

another perl question

Hi, can anyone tell me why there are perl5 binaries and perl-5 binaries in /usr/bin ? Whats the differemce ? -david -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remember, you are unique ... just like everyone else. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

perl versions?

I'm hoping someone can answer this :-) I just upgraded to potato using apt-get and everything went smoothly ( was that easy or what? ) But I noticed that I have both perl-5.004 and the newer perl-5.005 on my system. Do I need both of them? /etc/alternatives/perl points to perl-5.005, are there some