[Gllug] services

[Nix]

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, itsbruce at uklinux.net yowled:
> 3.  It is the X server itself, rather than xdm, which runs the tcp 
> connection once negotiated.  So if you stop the X server from listening 
> to tcp requests that is enough.  This is done in the Xservers file 
> (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers on this debian box), which contains the line to 
> invoke the server.  Mine includes the parameter -nolisten tcp.

You're only likely to want to do this if you have only one machine and
never, ever run remote X apps, because it means you'll have to restart
the server to run them (although ssh tunnelling *might* let you sneak
some in). I don't know how common this is, but I know that since I got a
network I've never *not* run remote X apps...

(hell, this Emacs is a remote X app! :) )

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