[plug] RH 6 upgrade kills X

[Mike Holland]

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Bob Ogden wrote:

> BTW   /tmp/.X11-unix contained...

> drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Jul 17 19:17 ..

Aah! Wrong permissions on /tmp - should be  drwxrwxrwt

> srwxrwxrwx   1 root     bob             0 Apr 27 10:29 X0

> A lock file of some sort? I don't understand why it's there as X _was_

No, its a socket, aka "named pipe". One process reads and another writes.

> working before the upgrade (honest!)... Enlightenment on why this would
> occur would be appreciated.

/tmp permissions.


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