Hi Jack, Jack Ort wrote on Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:39:03AM -0600:
> Recently installed 4.4 on an old Pentium box, with all(?) of the X > file sets. Thinking now of trying to use it as a firewall, and I've > read that I should not have X on a firewall. Well, probably you should not *run* X on a firewall, but having the binaries and libraries around does no harm. > Is there an easy way to uninstall X, or should I just install from > scratch again? I wouldn't lose that much, but I hate to take the > brute force approach if there's a smarter way. The smartest way is to just leave X in place, set machdep.allowaperture=0 in /etc/sysctl.conf (or re-add the comment marker "#" in front of that line in case you removed it), remove the line 'xdm_flags=""' from /etc/rc.conf.local (or whatever you did to enable X) and reboot. Sometimes, the X libraries are needed by non-X programs from the ports tree, too, and at that point, you will be re-installing them. Perhaps you don't need many third- party software packages on a firewall, but who knows? Besides, if you are a newbie, chances are you break the system when trying to remove X. But even if you were experienced, there would be no point in removing X. > Thanks in advance for helping a newbie! You are welcome, Ingo
