David Suarez wrote:
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>
> I have setup Cygwin/X on Windows Terminal Services and have been running it using
> the approach that each new user gets there own port.
>
> Everything runs dandy except under some circumstance it appears the socket/file in
> the /tmp/.X11-unix/ directory is not cleaned up when X is closed. In those cases,
> on startup for a non-admin rights user, they receive a fatal error. To fix all I do
> is go into the directory and delete the offending file (I confirm that there is no X
> server on that port first). Since the work-around "works", I attempted to add that
> to the script the user's kick off to delete the hanging file if it's there.
> Unfortunately since this only happens if the previous user of that port was
> different, a permission error occurs.
this a quite often asked question. You could solve this with per-user mounted
/tmp directory. eg.
mkdir $HOME/tmp
mount -buf $(cygpath -m $HOME/tmp) /tmp
This will create a temp directory in the users home directory and map /tmp
to that directory.
bye
ago
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