xhost: /etc/X*.hosts

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:27, Pat Kane wrote:

> Try:
>     man Xserver | grep /etc/X
> on my Ubuntu system it gives:
> 
> /etc/Xn.hosts                 Initial access control list for display  number n

Ok, so then is that another instance that needs to be changed to __sysconfdir__ as well, or is it hard coded to /etc somewhere?


> 
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
>> This was reported to me and I thought I should pass it along...
>> 
>> xhost(1) has:
>> 
>> FILES
>>       /etc/X*.hosts
>> 
>> but looking through xhost.c, I'm not sure what it's referring to...
>> 
>> so do we
>> 
>> 1) Remove it?
>> 
>> 2) Change the /etc/ to something else like __sysconfdir__ and explain what these files are for?
>> 
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