From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 11:39:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252EB37B42F for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3NIdLD71117; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:39:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3CC5AAB1.2050709@rambo.simx.org> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:40:49 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris P Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is X Windows normally run on Servers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris P wrote: > "Tried sending this before but wouldn't work so seeing if hotmail will > get there" > > New to FBSD and trying to get my head around everything. Set up XServer > but on next reboot got KDENABIO failed and fixed by setting the security > level to 0, which did the trick. Just wondered what the implications of > a security level being set to 0 when setting up a web, mail server etc. > or if you would even set up Xserver in a server situation. Is it just > used for users in a desktop enviroment? > > Regards > ChrisP > > Its hard to say whats right and wrong, but I would personally never setup X on a server. I see no need for it, and the impact on stability and performance is noticable. The way I see it, servers should do their job, nothing else, and displaying fancy GUI's and nice colors is not on any of my servers todo list. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message