From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 25 19:55:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 425FB1065672 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:55:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2147D8FC15 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22872 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2009 19:55:00 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 25 Nov 2009 19:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4B0D8BA0.8070406@telenix.org> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:55:12 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List References: <4B0D851F.8030009@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <4B0D851F.8030009@telenix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: X11's tcp port: FIXED X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:55:01 -0000 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.