Re: X and -nolisten tcp

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>]

* Brian Stults (bstults@soc.ufl.edu) wrote:
> I have the following in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc:
> 
> exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
> 
> When I run nmap, I get this for X:
> 
> 6000/tcp   open        X11
> 
> Is that unusual?  I had thought since I specified nolisten the tcp port 
> would not be open.  Also, how can I check to be sure it is not 
> listening?  I have only ever used X forwarding via ssh, so I don't know 
> how to try it another way.  I don't run a telnet server.
> 
> Thanks.

  According to the debconf info given during the installation -nolisten
will make it listen for connections from localhost only, isn't it so?

 Alex.