On Thu, 13 May 2004, Guy Fraser wrote: > Satish Balay wrote: > > > >One can also try: > >netstat -p |grep X11 > > > >For me - it shows that X11 is using unix-sockets. > > > >Staish > > > I searched www.xfree86.org and found no solid evidence that their should not be a TCP port. > > I see both TCP and Unix ports : > > $ sudo netstat -lnp > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 906/X <snip> As indicated a few times already in this thread - this is not the default behavior. I suspect one of the following; - modified gdm.conf - not using gdm to login - not using FC1 Easy thing to do is (assuming you are logging into gdm) : ----------- [asterix]: rpm -qV gdm [asterix]: ps auxww |grep X root 2618 0.6 3.0 79160 31012 ? S May12 7:53 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 <notice the '-nolisten tcp' option> ----------- Satish