Have you tried 'startx' with portsentry shutdown and ipchains off (rules dumped and default policy accept)? mjn wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > > Hmmm. also check the tmp dir. did this happen spontaneously or after you set > > up ipchains? (I didn't read your first mail very well :-) > > Yea did that. There was something about that in my first email... :) > > > what happens when you do startx as root? > > Exact same problem when doing startx as root. > > ____________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > > E-Mail : mjn at tc.umn.edu > Page Mail : 6123065932 at messaging.sprintpcs.com > http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ > ____________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -- Troy Johnson mailto:john1536 at tc.umn.edu http://umn.edu/~john1536/ The same applies for other kinds of long-lasting low-level pain. [...] The body's response to being jabbed, pierced, and cut is to produce endorphins. [...] So here's my programme for breaking that cycle of dependency on Windows: get left arm tattooed with dragon motif, buy a crate of Jamaican Hot! Pepper Sauce, get nipples pierced. With any luck that will produce enough endorphins to make Windows completely redundant, and I can then upgrade to Linux and get on with things. -- Pieter Hintjens --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org