From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 12 11:32:28 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 9D84A106566B for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:32:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-out2.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-OUT2.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331208FC13 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:32:27 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,375,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="223496112" Received: from zivmaildisp2.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.143]) by zivm-relay2.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 12 Sep 2009 13:32:26 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id 2BC4D1B0096; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:32:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:32:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: where to put `startx` serverargs 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: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:32:28 -0000 hi there, since i don't use ipv6 X produces the following warning when starting up: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/otaku:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 so i'd to start X this way: `startx -- -nolisten inet6`. i looked through the man pages of startx and xinit but couldn't find where to put the argument "-nolisten inet6" so `startx` picks it up automatically. currently i have this extra line in /usr/local/bin/startx: "serverargs = -nolisten inet6" but that's just a hack because i couldn't find any information on where to put the serverarg. cheers. alex