Bug 3174

Summary:	xfs does not listen on TCP 7100 as documented
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	martin
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	hargrove, paolo.saggese, turchi
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Description martin 1999-05-31 09:04:28 UTC

RH 5.2 xfs listens on UNIX port 7100 AND tcp port 7100 by
default. It also accepts the -port argument to change this.

RH 6 doc says the xfs in RH 6 will listen on tcp 7100 by
default.

It does not. It ONLY listens on UNIX port -1 !!!!

(information confirmed by netstat -at and netstat -ax, the
former revealing nothing relating to xfs even when xfs is
plainly running, the latter revealing a UNIX protocol port
at: /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1)

Neither does it accept the -port argument (well, it accepts
it, but it ignores it)

Instructions on page 4 Installation guide suggest putting
"Fontpath "tcp/localhost:7100" in XF86Config. This does not
work (for the above reasons). Only

	"Fontpath "unix/:-1"

works.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-06-01 22:26:59 UTC

*** Bug 2514 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

In section 1.3.0.1 (Enhanced font support) of the
installation guide (I am looking at the electronic version
from the rhl-install-guide-en-6.0-2 rpm) you give
instructions for using the new font server instead of a
conventional fontpath.
Those direction say to use "tcp/localhost:7100" in the
fontpath.  However, the version of xfs in
XFree86-xfs-3.3.3.1-49 has intentionally had TCP
functionality removed (XFree86-3.3.3.1-xfsredhat.patch
modification of file
XFree86-3.3.3.1/xc/programs/xfs/os/connection.c).  The
correct instruction would be to use "unix/:-1" in the
fontpath.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-03 14:47:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2759 ***