[TAG] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: lpr works for user not root in Basiclinux 2.1

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Sindi Keesan (keesan at grex.cyberspace.org):

> The author of our distribution said to try this while running X (which is 
> a server) and port 6000 was then open.

Please see my separate reply to Neil.  Starting up the X11 server makes
port 6000 and adjoining ports be reachable from localhost.

> I don't normally run X while I am online. 

That's really rather pointless as a security measure, except in the
sesne of minimising the amount of code you're running with root
authority -- but you'd be smarter just not to run X11 as root at all.