Running 

 vncserver -kill :79

should get rid of the file.

On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:55 AM, "Michael D. Setzer II" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> I've had the issue of the vncserver not starting after a bad restart 
> where the /tmp/.X11-unix/X79 file has not been deleted during the 
> shutdown (Usually a power outage). 
> 
> My current solution has been to have a script in cron.hourly that 
> checks if the status is running, and if not it deletes the 
> /tmp/.X11-unix/X79 file and then starts the service. 
> 
> Is there a better method to have it delete the file during the start 
> process? Not sure if something else is supose to delete this file if 
> it wasn't deleted during a normal shutdown.
> 
> Before I would have to manually ssh into the machines to delete 
> the file, and manually restart the service. (now systemctl). 
> 
> Fedora 16 by the way.
> 
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