[mythtv-users] Mythweb scheduled Recordings not working when program already started

Saul A. Peebsen jaglover at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 03:10:01 UTC 2013


On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:33:10 -0600
John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 18:39 -0600, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
> 
> > Even easier is to use native X feature, the application can be run
> > in one host (which does not need X installed) and it can be
> > displayed in another node. No SSH needed on trusted network. Set
> > DISPLAY variable in remote box to your local box and that's all you
> > need.
> 
> Bad advice these days, many distros configure X to not even listen to
> the tcp port anymore.  (Look at your process list and see
> if /usr/bin/X was started with -nolisten tcp) And if there is any

This is easy to override, as long as we have it in UNIX way, put 

exec /usr/bin/X

into your ~/.xserverrc and your X sever will be listening for incoming
connections.

> sort of iptables configured it will also block X from any
> non-localhost address.  For now we can still use ssh for remote app
> display but Wayland promises to bring the days of network
> transparency to a sad end.

So fix it in iptables, although I see no need to run iptables behind
NAT.

> Weep for the death of The UNIX Way.  By the time Linux achieves the
> long awaited 'world domination' it will be indistinguishable from
> what it replaced.  No network transparency, 'everything is a file'
> replaced with 'everything is an API', Windows services and the
> registry.  Humbug.

I hope not.
 
> Oh, and just to be pendantic, while an X server is not required to
> send a program's display to another server, you already installed the
> X client libs and X basic apps to meet the dependencies of any program
> capable of a graphical display.

Never said otherwise. Having supporting libs installed still does not
mean X must be installed and _running_.

-- 
Cheers, Saul


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