Guy Fraser said: > William Hooper wrote: > >>Guy Fraser said: >> >> >>>Yes FC1 does use TCP ports for X11. >>> >>> >>No, it doesn't. Just one example of many: >>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04180.html >> >> > Again with the XDMCP session management access. > > RTFM about gdm.conf. > > You do not need to use kdm,gdm or xdm to run X. 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). > 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. RTFM for Xserver. It is the example for "-nolisten". MHarris ranks above you in my "knowledge of X" scale. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.general/1314 -- William Hooper