Re: ssh and X forwarding
On 2006-03-28 12:28:20 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> When I run nmap localhost I see the following two lines at the end of
> the listing:
>
> 6000/tcp open X11
> 6001/tcp open X11:1
>
> The other lines all make sense to me, but why are these there? I do
> have two X sessions running, so that, I assume, explains why there are
> two lines and not just one, but my question is "Why are there any such
> lines?" I do not run xdm, gdm, kdm, or any other display manager. I
> boot to a console session and use startx to initiate X when I need it.
If you have two X sessions running, this is normal: X11 is a
socket-based client-server protocol (even locally). There are
no relations with display managers.
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