On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:24 am, sege wrote: > Hello Folks: > I am running Mandrake Linux 8.1, and I am trying to stop X from listening > 0n port 6000. Any hint on how to do this will be appreciated. > TIA, > > Qv6 start X with the "-nolisten tcp" , if you're starting x manually with startx the format would be "startx -- -nolisten tcp", if you have the system start X automagically edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and change: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X to :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp
(these instructions are for rh7.2 but i'm pretty sure it's all you need for mdk8.1 too)