Conference turris::digital_unix

8744.0. "xdm-errors, a reject per second, localhost" by GIDDAY::CAMERON (And there shall come FORTH (Isaiah 11:1)) Thu Feb 06 1997 22:42

    Cross-posted from the Digital Firewall notes conference, topic 1747, no
    replies yet made there.
    
    
    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