[olug] inet

[Tim Russell]

Argh - the command is indeed "xhost +", but you'd better make sure your X is
firewalled off the net before you do it, because it'll let anyone connect,
including to snoop on stuff.  Actually your X ports (6000-6010 or so) should
be firewalled in any case.

The reason you can't connect to IRC is most likely that inetd isn't running
and thus identd is not running, and IRC likes to see that usually.  You can
bring inetd back up and comment out everything except for the "ident" line
to take care of that, or Red Hat 6.2 uses an identd that is standalone - I'm
not sure what version it is, but I bet you could download it from a RedHat
mirror and load that on Mandrake as they're very similar.  That version will
also do cool things like return the wrong username or "MASKED_USER" if you
like.

Tim #1

----- Original Message -----
From: "mesc" <mescie at home.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: [olug] inet


> Ever since I turned  off the  50inet script at bootup I haven't been
> able to connect to an irc server.is this because that script is also
> known as inetd,is so is there a way to keep this turned off and still be
> able to irc?,or do I just have to live w/o irc?Also I'm trying to use a
> GUI program called merlin to use with tripwire to check my file
> integrity but I keep getting this error>>  Merlin is starting up....
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0.....this happened to me before and I got
> it to connect to X with a command something like xhost+....could someone
> please remind me  of the proper command? :)
>
>
>                 Thank you,Gary Martin
>
>
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