From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 16: 7:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3928837B401; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA7A43EC5; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:07:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott.mitchell@mail.com) Received: from fishballoon.dyndns.org ([80.4.125.54]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030103000747.IKBG5233.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.dyndns.org>; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:07:47 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0309KbO009378; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:09:20 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0309E8t011867; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:09:14 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:09:14 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Marcel Stangenberger , John Bleichert , "Brent J. Ermlick" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030103000914.GB360@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20030102161006.M177@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:19:36AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > This is not going to work. Don't reinstall without a good reason. > What's more, it's pretty clear that you're looking in the wrong > place. I've looked at your original message and you say you're using > the server to connect to your local client. That's wrong. It looks > as if exceed is a client (I've never heard of it), and it's not > connecting to your local server (display). Reinstalling X remotely is > obviously not going to do anything. Exceed is an X server for Win32 machines. I assume he's been using it as an X terminal onto the FreeBSD machine. I should have noticed that earlier, but the X server/client distinction always confuses people, especially when you're dealing with X terminals :-( Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message