How to disable XFree86 and wdm listening ports
Wolfgang Kess
bsdlist at kess.ch
Tue Oct 28 08:50:22 PST 2003
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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