[olug] inet

[mesc]

I have much to learn  no? :)


Tim Russell wrote:

> Argh - the command is indeed "xhost +", but you'd better make sure your X is
> firewalled off the net before you do it, because it'll let anyone connect,
> including to snoop on stuff.  Actually your X ports (6000-6010 or so) should
> be firewalled in any case.
>
> The reason you can't connect to IRC is most likely that inetd isn't running
> and thus identd is not running, and IRC likes to see that usually.  You can
> bring inetd back up and comment out everything except for the "ident" line
> to take care of that, or Red Hat 6.2 uses an identd that is standalone - I'm
> not sure what version it is, but I bet you could download it from a RedHat
> mirror and load that on Mandrake as they're very similar.  That version will
> also do cool things like return the wrong username or "MASKED_USER" if you
> like.
>
> Tim #1
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mesc" <mescie at home.com>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:01 PM
> Subject: [olug] inet
>
> > Ever since I turned  off the  50inet script at bootup I haven't been
> > able to connect to an irc server.is this because that script is also
> > known as inetd,is so is there a way to keep this turned off and still be
> > able to irc?,or do I just have to live w/o irc?Also I'm trying to use a
> > GUI program called merlin to use with tripwire to check my file
> > integrity but I keep getting this error>>  Merlin is starting up....
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> > Error: Can't open display: :0.0.....this happened to me before and I got
> > it to connect to X with a command something like xhost+....could someone
> > please remind me  of the proper command? :)
> >
> >
> >                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> >
> >
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