single linux box on dsl?

[Jay Daniels]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:39:57PM -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> Yang Xiao said:
> > Maybe I'm missing something here, but doesn't it still run on 6000? It
> > just
> > doesn't listen on the port.
> > I'm confuse with all this talk, correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> The standard FC1 command includes "-nolisten tcp", which means (from the
> Xserver man page):
> 
>        -nolisten trans-type
>                disables a transport type.  For example, TCP/IP connections
> can
>                be disabled with -nolisten tcp.
> 
> So, no, it doesn't use TCP because it has been disabled.

Ok, only if you use xdm, but if you use the startx script to run xinit
you need to put this in the startx script to get rid of the open port
6???.

defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp"

Goodbye port 6000!


jay