Re: Accepting external sendmail on 2.0.2

From: Igor Sobrado (igor_at_string1.ciencias.uniovi.es)
Date: 07/11/05 

Date: 11 Jul 2005 19:35:37 +0200

Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
>
> Then what would "-nolisten" do? ;-)
>
> Observe that the usual way of starting the Xserver, via xdm's
> "Xservers" file, does "-nolisten tcp" by default.

Indeed! :-)))

I run it on the past, but I am not running xdm now. I found it
buggy on NetBSD/i386 [*].

[*] I think that the console window on xdm is responsible for these
    ugly "respawning too fast" messages, and I am too lazy to comment
    it on the xdm configuration files. :-)

Should I run xdm again? I certainly believe that it is useful,
and I read in the system documentation that it should be enabled
by default on production machines with X servers. Perhaps it is
better spending some time to fix the xdm configuration files instead
of starting Motif with "startx" from command-line. What do you think?

Best regards,
Igor.

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