single linux box on dsl?

[Guy Fraser]

William Hooper wrote:

>Guy Fraser said:
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>>William Hooper wrote:
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>>>Guy Fraser said:
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>>>>Yes FC1 does use TCP ports for X11.
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>>>No, it doesn't.  Just one example of many:
>>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04180.html
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>>Again with the XDMCP session management access.
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>>RTFM about gdm.conf.
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>>You do not need to use kdm,gdm or xdm to run X.
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>I agree, but the default configuration is to use runlevel 5, which has TCP
>disabled.  If you choose to start X a different way, you can use
>"-nolisten tcp" (which is the same option passed by GDM).
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>>Selective editing can't save you. If you don't know what your talking
>>about, admit you don't and learn. If you have an Xserver running you
>>will have and open TCP port = 6000 + display_number. If you do not have
>>a port listening, then you are not running X, you may be running some
>>other graphical interface but it is not X.
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>RTFM for Xserver.  It is the example for "-nolisten".
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I admit it, I was wrong.

Having RTFM for Xserver and X, I did find the -nolisten directive.

I also discovered that X will work with DecNET, TCP/IP or IPC, not just
TCP/IP as I believed.

>MHarris ranks above you in my "knowledge of X" scale.
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That goes for me too.

Do you know where I might find some Crow? :-[