my firewall shows that someone/thing keeps trying to connect to or probe port 6000 on my pc. This is the x windows port. a nmap scan of my pc shows that port 6000 /tcp x11 is in state open.

I am running mandrake 10.1 and have edited the file /usr/X11R6/bin/startx:

userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
defaultclientargs=""
defaultserverargs=""
clientargs=""

serverargs= -nolisten tcp
i tried rebooting and still get the message from a scan that port 6000 is open, despite the serverargs. Can anyone please tell me what to do as i am afraid that sooner or later someone is going to exploit this.

thanks

you need to quote the value, and not have a space in it: serverargs="-nolisten tcp"

I did put the value in quote but the result is still the same. i even followed some directions i saw on this site for creating a special file x11 rc as root, that would be read each time the system starts. This was supposed to do the same thing and stop the server from listening.

in my case, nothing has made a difference and the port is still open. I have tried re-booting the machine several times.