Re: X11

["Reuben D. Budiardja" <techlist voyager phys utk edu>]

On Friday 25 June 2004 12:30 pm, Hambleton, John S. wrote:
> Just curious if any admins run X11 on their servers.
> In the past I have restricted mine to run level 3. However
> Taroon has some good graphical configuration utilities.
> I have added to my iptables rules a filter for the X11 port
> 6000 tcp. Is that sufficient, or should I revert to the practice
> of run level 3 only?

I use runlevel 3 on the server, but when I need GUI configuration (like the 
redhat-config-*) I export it to my local workstation from the (remote) 
server. I don't see any point of running level 5 on the server since no one 
actually sit in front of it. 

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN