Re: I broke x

[Nate Amsden <aphro@aphroland.org>]

david sowerby wrote:
> 
> While trying to be smart I closed port 6000, thinking this would just shut
> down x's network capabilities (I'm not on a network). I added "-nolisten tcp"
> to /etc/X11/Xserver and sure enough it closed port 6000 and x won't run using
> starx. I can start the xserver by giving the path on the command line and it
> starts, but no 'wm' of course. Running startx just gives me an error:
> -X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: erno = 2
> I read man pages and can't figure out how to fix this, /etc/services didn't
> have any mention of X or port 6000, is this why startx won't work? Or did I
> screw something else up. Can someone help me unscrew this, please? I'll try
> "ipchains" instead, :-)   Thanks in advance,    -------------dave

quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many
machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the
error makes me believe more) that X uses unix sockets to communicate
making it (as far as running X on a local machine) immune to ipchains
rules.

nate

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