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skoal

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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld

Registered: 2004-03-23

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recent Xhost output changes

I almost lost a pair of pants and a roll of "Charmin" when I saw output from "xhost".

[skoal@morpheus ~]$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
INET:localhost.localdomain
INET:444-333-222-111.xxxxxxxxxxx.com
LOCAL:

I hid my information for obvious reasons, "111-222-333-444" being my IP and "xxxxxxxxx" my S&TLD.  Suffice it to say, all those lines are just my local information, not a remote one.  For a second there, I almost swallowed my skoal. 

However, "xhost" didn't use to display information like this.  I've never used "xhost +".  It used to display just something like this (by default):

[skoal@morpheus ~]$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect

Well, it will currently only display the last one like that if you use the "-- -noslisten tcp" X arg, which I do all the time.  I just noticed this "xhost" behaviour recently since I was helping someone diagnose a DE problem and I had xinit'd the standard way.

That was a good one xorg.  You almost got me on that one.  Nice try...