Hi Paul,
Performance issues aside, there are other good reasons not to run X on your
Solaris box.
Running X means that you need to run RPC, so you have quite a number of
potentialy exploitable services that are listening on various ports.
We run an Ultra 5 without start rpc or X, If we ever have to run X for the GUI,
then we just start RPC and X manually and stop them again afterwards.
We manage the firewall from a GUI on NT exclusively
If you dont ever want to run X, then you dont need to pay the ~$1K for the motif
license which is required for 4.1.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:01:29 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [FW1] To X or not to X? - that is the question.
I am setting up some new systems to act as firewalls (Ultra 10's - Solaris 7).
One of the first questions we thought about is - if we should install a graphics
screen and run X-Windows or just put a dumb vt100 and not run X-Windows.
Its basically a question of how much overload does running X-Windows use.
I personally don't mind, the systems are accessed remotely about 99% of the time
and they don't have the management part on so I'll throw the question out to the
people 'in the know'.
Does running X-Windows significantly slow up a Sun box?
Paul
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