Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:55:12 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X11's tcp port: FIXED Message-ID: <4B0D8BA0.8070406@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <4B0D851F.8030009@telenix.org> References: <4B0D851F.8030009@telenix.org>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick > off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD > machine, but it won't work. I know all the security things, I know I had xhost > and DISPLAY correct, so I went to check netstat for the ip port 6000 being open, > but netstat shows me no such port. > > I usually, to defeat the "nolisten" options usually set on, edit my startx file > to remove any such line. You just search for "nolisten tcp" or some subset of > that (tcp might get set separately) but as I expected, I'd edited that line out > ages ago, when I last wanted to display a foreign app onto my FreeBSD X11 > screen. However, no matter how I tried to start my X, I can't seem to provoke > netstat to show my ip port 6000. I tried running my ordinay startxfce4, I tried > kde3, I even tried twm, I just can't get IP port 6000. You know that without > that port, you can't run remote X applications. > > This used to work. Any idea why it's stopped working for me? Can't really say why, but it just began to work, entirely mysteriously. I would rather know about these things, but I'll take working over non-working, I guess.
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