mjn wrote: > > [root at monolith /etc]# telnet 127.0.0.1 6000 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. > [root at monolith /etc]# Hmm, it looks to me as though the port is actually open, and it did open a connection (though the connection was immediately closed). If your IPchains rules were blocking connections, you would have gotten a `connection refused' message. > > Did I say anything about xauth in my last message? That may be the > > culprit.. > > Well there is no active xauth process and aside from that I cannot > remember where I need to go and see if I have commented it out(I remember > a file in /etc but it is escaping me now). The answer is sitting just out > side the left half my brain and I cannot reach it. If xauth is the > culprit, what might I do to remedy the situation? Well, xauth is not a process, it's just an authorization mechanism for X Windows. There *is* an xauth program used to generate the `cookies' used to authorize the connections. Unfortunately, I don't exactly understand how the whole thing works, and I don't know how to generate the correct values.. You should be able to run `xauth list' to see what cookies you have available on your system. I *think* that you can force X to regenerate the cookies by deleting the cookies file. It's location should be specified by the $XAUTHORITY environment variable. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I'm not nearly as think / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ as you confused I am. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org