| Title: | SEAL |
| Moderator: | GALVIA::SMITH |
| Created: | Mon Mar 21 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1989 |
| Total number of notes: | 8209 |
Digital UNIX V3.2d-1
Altavista Firewall for Digital Unix V2.1
I won't IPMT this just yet, I'd like to ask if anybody has come across
it first. It's not a severe problem.
Customer reports that every second a line is added to
/var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors provided the console is not logged in. The
line is the typical rejection due to X server security:
"AUDIT: Tue Jan ..... 95 X: client 4 rejected from IP 127.0.0.1
port 9999"
What is causing this? It implies a client is constantly trying to
connect to the X server from the local host.
James Cameron
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| 1747.1 | alarmd causing the error | CSC32::SHEAFFER | Wed Mar 12 1997 19:35 | 21 | |
Hi James
I had a customer who had the same problem call in today. The errors
occur because alarmd is running and always attempting to update the
background of the display to reflect the current state of the firewall.
The display cannot be updated since an X session is not active which
results in the errors in xdm-errors.
The workaround is to either leave an X session running on the console or
edit the xdm configuration file so that errors are sent to /dev/null.
In /var/X11/xdm/xdm-config change the following and restart xdm.
DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /usr/var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors
to
DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /dev/null
Danny Sheaffer
[email protected]
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| 1747.2 | You can switch off the background colour control! | GALVIA::SMITH | Thu Mar 13 1997 05:50 | 9 | |
You can disable alarmd's screen background update by setting the
relevant variable in /usr/dfws/config/firewall.conf to FALSE. Check
firewall.conf for the relevant config var.
However the problem described in .0 is most likely to be related to a
customisation of the X display mechanism and/or the auditing system
on the firewall. I wonder why the customer made these changes.
Mark
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