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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: XView error: Cannot open connection...
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 00:34:22 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 17
- Message-ID: <154p2eINN849@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Jul28.130626.14976@uicc.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com
- Keywords: OW3 lockout
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- In article <1992Jul28.130626.14976@uicc.com> sdh@uicc.com (sheldon haynie) writes:
- >Every so often ( overnight ?) I find the error message :
- >
- >{20} procad:/hom1/fab/sdh/npn/p3:> XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: :0.0 (Server package)
- >
- >This requires me to exit OW and re-enter... is there an easier way to reset ?
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- You probably have a cron job that is deleting old files in /tmp at night.
- The connection to the "" server is via a Unix domain socket that lives in
- /tmp. The cron job is deleting this, so new clients can no longer open it.
-
- Fix the cron job to skip sockets.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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