Hello, I recently dist-upgraded from potato to debian. Unfortunately, it didn't go as well as planned... X broke; it didn't install xserver-xfree86. :( I also lost sudo and man. I have no idea why. Anyhow, minor problems aside, I have come across one that I havn't quite figured out yet. I'm used to being able to redisplay programs across my network. I generally run "xhost +" on my machine, and then "export DISPLAY=10.15:0.0" on the foreign machine, and off I go. So far as I understand, the X server (on my machine) is supposed to be listening on port 6000. Well, it's not. Trying to pull that trick fails (connection refused) and nmap shows the port closed. I looked through the config files and man pages, but couldn't find a reference to not listening to TCP requests. I recall that in the X v3, there was a debconf question asking me if I wanted X to listen, but I didn't see one for X v.4. Any suggestions? Thanks, -ben p.s. Before I get some security warnings about xhost, I am running on an internal trusted network. I know it's stupid to use, but it's easy and secure (in my situation). I would prefer to just tunnel everything through ssh, since then I don't need to worry about xhost at all, but the machines I'm connecting to can't run ssh. Don't ask. ::sigh:: -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
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