From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 22 08:29:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745751065692 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:29:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alain.aubord@sourire.ch) Received: from 212-98-41-64.static.adslpremium.ch (212-98-41-64.static.adslpremium.ch [212.98.41.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E819D8FC16 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from biollaz.local.sourire.ch (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 212-98-41-64.static.adslpremium.ch (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0M8LewN001095; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:21:40 +0100 (CET) Received: (from alain@localhost) by biollaz.local.sourire.ch (8.14.3+Sun/8.14.3/Submit) id o0M8LLqu001094; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:21:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:21:21 +0100 From: rhino64@postmail.ch To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20100122082121.GA1051@biollaz.local.sourire.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Manolis Kiagias , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100121185441.GB4125@biollaz.local.sourire.ch> <4B58C787.9040800@otenet.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B58C787.9040800@otenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:49:46 +0000 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: xdm and xdmcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:29:06 -0000 On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:30:47PM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 21/01/2010 8:54 μ.μ., rhino64@postmail.ch wrote: > > modifying Xaccess, starting xdm with parameter "udpPort 177". > > > > The command "netstat -a" never indicates that a process is listening on that port. > > > > The notes in Xaccess seem to indicate that when a LISTEN line is not > present, it works like LISTEN * > I found this to be false. Please insert a LISTEN line with your IP > address, i.e. > > LISTEN 10.14.28.10 > > With wdm, the listening is possible but I cannot start the X server even if the server alone > > is perfectly working and if it is correctly started by xdm. > > > > I don't want to use kdm or gdm since they are too heavy (almost all kde and gnome should be > > installed with them). > > > > Thanks, this was the correct point. I have added the "LISTEN 0.0.0.0" directive in Xaccess file and it works. xdm is perfect for me, I have just tried wdm since I was not able to make xdm work like I wanted. Thanks for the help. Alain Aubord