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From: laplante@ocgy.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Possible bug in the enabling the hosts on the personal iris
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.141948@ocgy.ubc.ca>
Date: 26 Feb 91 22:19:48 GMT
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In article <1377@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, smp@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu
(Shailesh M. Potnis) writes:
|> 
|> 	I am having problems in disabling the access control on the
personal
|> iris machines. 

My fix is to start up an extra new copy of the X server by running
'startx &'.
It's best to have a file '.xinit' with sh commands, where the last
command
puts up a window (so you can tell when the initialization is done).

At that point 'xhost' starts running normally on our machine.


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