failed to bind listener, etc.

[Peter C. Tribble]

"Soyeb Aswat" <soyeb "at" btinternet.com> wrote in reply:

>>>> Does anyone know what would be causing this failure on a Sun computer
>>>> running Solaris 7?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
>>>> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
>>>> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
>>>
>>>You need to "chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-Unix"

While this will work, it opens a security hole big enough for your users
to drive a truck through, should they wish.

The correct fix is (and this of course assumes you have adequate privileges,
but then if you have enough privilege to chmod the directory you should be
able to do this as well)

chgrp root Xvnc
chmod g+s Xvnc

-Peter Tribble
HGMP Computing Services
http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/


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