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Old 05-09-2002, 04:05 PM   #1
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--nolisten tcp


Where do I put "--nolisten tcp" to make it so that X does not open a port?
 
Old 05-09-2002, 04:35 PM   #2
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startx -- -nolisten tcp
 
Old 05-09-2002, 04:44 PM   #3
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How do I make it so that anytime a user types "startx" on the system, it sends the "--nolisten tcp" argument.
 
Old 05-09-2002, 04:51 PM   #4
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alias startx='startx -blah' in /etc/bashrc or similar
 
Old 05-09-2002, 05:01 PM   #5
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I don't have a bashrc on the system. It's SuSE 7.0 by the way.
 
Old 05-09-2002, 05:53 PM   #6
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glock19, what shell do you use?
 
Old 05-09-2002, 06:08 PM   #7
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Oh, it's .bashrc

I have that.

But I want startx to pass the --nolisten tcp argument for ALL users on the system.
 
Old 05-09-2002, 06:25 PM   #8
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is it really too much hard work to pay the slightest bit of attention? i said /etc/bashrc no ~/.bashrc if that's what i meant, that's what i would have said. you myst already have that file, if for some reason it's not there, use /etc/profile or /etc/rc.local or whatever.
 
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If your users you bash add it to /etc/profile. You can use /etc/csh.login if they use csh or tcsh.

--jeremy
 
Old 01-23-2003, 04:27 AM   #10
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Ok Lets do things the REAL Linux way :-)

glock19 the real way to do this is to go to /usr/X11R6/bin/startx or if your using some funky distro then do 'whereis startx' and locate the directory
open 'startx' and on this line:

serverargs="" change to this: ---> serverargs="-nolisten tcp"

Restart X bingo Bye Bye 6000
 
Old 01-27-2003, 11:31 AM   #11
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I tried that, and it didn't work.
 
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Dirty method is to find defaultserverargs="" in /usr/bin/startx and change it to defaultserverargs="-nolisten tcp"
 
  


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