[olug] RedHat 7.0 available

Adam Lassek lunatik at radiks.net
Wed Sep 27 03:44:10 UTC 2000


Vincent wrote:
> 
> Eric Penne wrote:
> 
> > Now I only have ports 21 for ftp
> > 25 for smtp and 6000 for X11 open.  Is there anyway for the X11 port
> > not to be seen by the outside?  I'm leaving SMTP open so that if
> 
> I think you can use  "startx -- -nolisten tcp"  Try digging through the
> xinit docs.  I think the default is to listen to 0.0.0.0:600x  If you
> set it to localhost, that should take care of it as well.

Yeah, I just tried this on my debian server and ran nmap, port 6000 is
shut down with those settings. I've been wondering how to close down
that port for a little while. Any idea where the setting to switch it to
localhost is at?

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