[TriLUG] x windows nolisten option

[Geoff Purdy]

>       My perhaps short question is how do I get x to come up in run level
5
> without listening on port 6000?

To answer your short question, editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to read:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp

will cause X to start in runlevel 5 without opening port 6000 in Red Hat.  
Don't know if it's the same for other distros - probably similar.

I'm afraid I don't have answers for your other questions.