"Christopher L. Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> not only is xhost not used, the binary is deleted if it exists every night
> on all servers by cron.

Ah. Satisfyingly BOFHish.

> I have figured out what the problem is, but not how to solve it.  Running
> the daemon in 3-layer-deep debug mode (-ddd) I discovered that the reason
> the server is responding "Error: Can't open display:" is
>
> debug2: bind port 6260: Address already in use
>
> repeated 999 times, for the 999 ports from port 6000 to port 6999.  Then
> the two messages
> Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket.
> debug1: x11_create_display_inet failed.

Oh. That's a first for me. Unfortunately, the number of ports to try
is hardcoded into channels.c. I guess you have to try to find out
what's eating your ports. 

-- 
Leif Nixon                       -            Systems expert
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National Supercomputer Centre    -      Linkoping University
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