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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:09:14 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 lockfile?
Message-ID:  <20030103000914.GB360@fishballoon.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20030102161006.M177@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301020922100.19796-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:19:36AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> This is not going to work.  Don't reinstall without a good reason.
> What's more, it's pretty clear that you're looking in the wrong
> place.  I've looked at your original message and you say you're using
> the server to connect to your local client.  That's wrong.  It looks
> as if exceed is a client (I've never heard of it), and it's not
> connecting to your local server (display).  Reinstalling X remotely is
> obviously not going to do anything.

Exceed is an X server for Win32 machines.  I assume he's been using it as
an X terminal onto the FreeBSD machine.  I should have noticed that
earlier, but the X server/client distinction always confuses people,
especially when you're dealing with X terminals :-(

	Scott

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