X opens a tcp port - Printable Version

X opens a tcp port - Printable Version

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X opens a tcp port - seeno - 2004-05-07

If you start X and do a

Code:
netstat -at

you will see that a tcp port 6000 is open, now if you don't run X as a server you might want to close that port, to do that enter the following argument when starting X

Code:
-- -nolisten tcp

so the whole command whould be

Code:
startx -- -nolisten tcp