closing ports kills console
2007-12-25 3:24:00
removal method (from inetd.conf, rc2.d, and rc3.d), and have yet to get
into IPF.
When I rebooted this morning, after having cleared a number of ports the
last few days, I found that I could not log in on the console. I get the
CDE login and it begins to set up the desktop, then it puts up an error
message saying "the DT messaging system could not be started" and
returns me to the login. I could select failsafe at the login, so I'm
not locked out, but ...
What do I need to have running to get this back? Then, how do I change
whatever that is to be listening only on the localhost so that I don't
have a port open to the outside? I did this sort of thing with mysql by
putting a line in the my.cnf file specifying bind-address=127.0.0.1
Finally, the one port I still have open that I would like to close is
6000 -- X11. I would like to close that down to the outside world, but
I'm a little concerned that it too will be wrapped up with CDE and I may
kill my console again.
TIA
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Chris Hoogendyk
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~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
<choogend at library.umass.edu>
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