Re: Bastille inhibitions

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Smith wrote when I complained about no window with gedit
  after using Bastille:

> > > Does it give any errors if it starts from a xterm shell prompt?

No error messages.

> > > 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'.

Well, ifconfig shows lo ok.

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

Now here was the problem I guess.  The line for 127.0.0.1 in hosts is
127.0.0.1    deal-evers    localhost.localdomain
so I gave the command xhost +deal-evers
which gave
deal-evers being added to access list.
HOWEVER, gedit from a wm command still leads to no window, yet ps -ax says it
is running.
Should I, by the way, make that line read differently?

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

Now that sounds like a logical problem...   How do I check what I have
firewalled out?  I don't right now know how to look at the ipchains rules I've
set up.  Sorry to be giving a newbie question.  I'm sure somewhere in my
Bastille documentation ...

I'll get reasonable security with functionality yet!

    Thanks, all, especially Bruce,      Ralph