Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:06:35 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation about nolisten option? (was: Re: startup Kde??) Message-ID: <20000720.18063500@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <39770D53.E530DBB2@gmx.de> References: <8ks16u$env$1@news1.xs4all.nl> <20000716.12225700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <39770D53.E530DBB2@gmx.de>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/20/00, 3:31:47 PM, Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> wrote=20 regarding Documentation about nolisten option? (was: Re: startup Kde??):= > Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > 2) issue such a command as 'startx -- -nolisten tcp' (you will > > understand yourself the reason for this a little later); > I looked for the option nolisten in the man-pages for startx, xinit=20 and > X, but have not found it yet. Can you give me a hint, where in the doc= =20 I > can read about this option? > Ciao > Siegbert Hello Siegbert, Actually, I learned about the nolisten option reading -security. I=20 don't know whether the option is documented at all, however.=20 In Peter Radcliffe's own words: <blockquote> In this day and age I _strongly_ suggest starting X with '-nolisten=20 tcp' and using the unix domain socket to talk to the X server. This even works cleanly with X forwarding over ssh. This will stop X clients on another machine displaying on your's=20 (unless you use ssh forwarding) but I never do that anyway ... </blockquote> The name "nolisten" is self-explanatory enough: if you issue a netstat=20 -an [| more], you can see its effect.=20 Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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