On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> sreangsu acharyya spewed into the ether:
> >
> >It was almost a wild goose chase figuring out how to close the 6000 >port while
>using kdm. Isnt there any generic way by which we can
> X has been designed to run over a network. So it generally opens port
> 6000 and runs over lo on the same machine.
> you could use xhost or ipchains to block unwanted connections to port 6000.
OK a couple of things
1) X also has an option to not to listen to tcp/udp. This is set by
invoking it with the -nolisten flag.
2) xhost - does not close the port. In fact till a couple of days back i
thought it did.
3) But the real point of the mail was not how to stop X from listening to
6000. I can already do that. What I wanted to know is if there is a way
where I can ask kdm to invoke X with the commandline parameters I want.
KDM docs doesnot talk about any such means, which is quite a pity.
-- sreangsu
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