>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nathan> ... but the machine architecture is still "i386", as in Intel Nathan> CISC. Other machine architectures include m68k, powerpc, Nathan> alpha, hp-ppa, etc. Nathan> You don't need to worry about this. Ok, that makes sense. I guess I was confusing machine architechture with CPU/processor type. Nathan> It's faster to use a "UNIX domain socket" when all traffic is Nathan> local as you avoid some of teh overhead of an IP stack. Why Nathan> waste those milliseconds? Would you be willing to explain the technicalities behind that ? Sounds like a neat `optimization'. BTW, is this a Debian-specific feature ? I haven't seen this in RedHat. Now for a networked system, you'd have to change the DISPLAY env var to allow remote X clients to display locally, right ? Nathan> Do it in /etc/profile, add this line: Nathan> export OSVERSION=`uname -r`-`arch` Nathan> HTH, Yes it does. Thank you. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com