Re: How to disable XFree86 and wdm listening ports

From: Wolfgang Kess (bsdlist_at_kess.ch)
Date: 10/28/03

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To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com>

    On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:13:20PM -0800, twig les wrote:
    > easiest is to become the superuser and edit
    > /usr/X11R6/bin/startx. Find the serverargs line and change it so
    > that it looks like this:
    >
    > serverargs="-nolisten tcp"

    Yes, I tried. This works for XFree86 invoked by users startx
    but not for a wdm started XFree86.

    > I never run wdm so don't know there.

    wdm is started on ttyv8

    /etc/ttys
     
    ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/wdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure

    adding an -nolisten does not work

    Wolfgang
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