[Liam Whalen <lwhalen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Brad Hards wrote:

> > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:24 pm, Liam Whalen wrote:
> > > > I have downloaded and built ethereal 0.9.13 but whenever I try to run
> > > > it I get this error
> > > >
> > > > bash-2.04# ./ethereal
> > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > >
> > > If you do "xhost +localhost", does it work?
> >
> > Yes it does thankyou
> Note that this statement is a potential security problem - you are allowing
> anyone on that machine to control your desktop. That may not be a problem
> (eg. if you are the only one who has an account), but you should at least
> read the man pages for xhost and Xsecurity.
>
I just removed the xhost +localhost from my startup script and now when I
run xhost it doesn't list localhost as allowing to connect anymore however
I can now run ethereal without the problems mentioned above.  Wierd.  Does
xhost cache its rules anywhere?  I can't seem to find anything that says
it does in the man pages.  I looks like each boot it should start fresh.
I wonder why ethereal works now without any xhost's configured.

Liam