On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Alan Peery wrote: >Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:47:46 +0000 >From: Alan Peery <peery@io.com> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: Running X on servers > >M. Yu wrote: > >> To me, running >>X on a server is not only illogical but a waste of precious resources and >>introducing a potential security risk. >> >I think there is a huge difference between running an X server and >having libraries availlable for running X programs. I think the X >libraries belong on a *standard* server install from Redhat... Exactly. You install the X libraries, clients, config tools on the server machine. Then you log into the server via ssh from your admin box/workstation/whatever which is running an X server, and you run the config tools remotely. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
