Re: Bastille inhibitions

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > I followed Bruce's security suggestions and installed some protection
> > > using bastille.   Everything still works fine except that when I start
> > > gedit as an application under xfce or icewm, it shows up in ps -ax as
> > > running but no window appears.  I can only get the gedit window by
> > > giving the gedit command from a root console.
> >
> > Does it give any errors if it starts from a xterm shell prompt?
> >
> > Try an "xhost +localhost" from an xterm first?
> 
> Error message:   bad host name:   localhost.
> I must have another localhost name.  I'll check.

Make sure:

1)  You localhost interface exists.  Should display in "ifconfig" as 'lo'.

2)  localhost is in your /etc/hosts file as 127.0.0.1.

3)  You don't have localhost firewalled out with your ipchains rules.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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