Several questions

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Nov 3 22:07:16 UTC 2003


On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ben Russo wrote:

> Wade Hampton wrote:
> 
> > I have several questions for the list:
> >
> > 1.  How do I get gdm on RH 9 to stop listening on port 6000 (e.g., for 
> > my laptop)
> >       /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
> 
> If GDM was listening for remote connections it would be on port 177, but 
> since
> by default it doesn't do that, this isn't your issue.
> 
> Port 6000 is (by default) the port that the first X display will listen 
> to for incomming
> connections. 

BTW, in fedrora beta/rawhide/core1 X tcp listen is disabled by
default.  If need - it can be enabled by adding 'DisallowTCP=false' to
/etc/gdm.conf.

Satish





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