X11's tcp port: FIXED

[Chuck Robey]

Chuck Robey wrote:
> I've got to be doing something wierd, for this not to work ... I wanted to kick
> off a app on a 2nd machine of mine, and have it display on my main FreeBSD
> machine, but it won't work.  I know all the security things, I know I had xhost
> and DISPLAY correct, so I went to check netstat for the ip port 6000 being open,
> but netstat shows me no  such port.
> 
> I usually, to defeat the "nolisten" options usually set on, edit my startx file
> to remove any such line.  You just search for "nolisten tcp" or some subset of
> that (tcp might get set separately) but as I expected, I'd edited that line out
> ages ago, when I last wanted to display a foreign app onto my FreeBSD X11
> screen.  However, no matter how I tried to start my X, I can't seem to provoke
> netstat to show my ip port 6000.  I tried running my ordinay startxfce4, I tried
> kde3, I even tried twm, I just can't get IP port 6000.  You know that without
> that port,  you can't run remote X applications.
> 
> This used to work.  Any idea why it's stopped working for me?

Can't really say why, but it just began to work, entirely mysteriously.  I would
rather know about these things, but I'll take working over non-working, I guess.