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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: A problem with xhost?
Message-ID: <1990Sep17.192721.16107@relay.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Sep 90 19:27:21 GMT
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In article <9009170230.AA00690@smithkline.com>, dixons%phvax.dnet@SMITHKLINE.COM writes:
|> I have noticed a similar problem with gettin xhost to pay attention to 
|> commands.  It seems to respond OK but then forgets what you tell it.

The X server will reset itself when there are no clients.  Therefore,
if your server is running but you have no X clients, when you run
xhost it establishes a connection, it does its stuff, it exits, the X
server resets and effectively undoes what xhost did.

The solution, as you noticed, is to run an X client to keep the server
from resetting when xhost exits,

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
               mikey@sgi.com           415/335-1786