xfs running with no x session
Bruce McDonald
brucemcdonal at mindspring.com
Fri May 21 22:56:35 UTC 2004
Hello Rick
On 21-May-04, you wrote:
> Bruce McDonald wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine
>> and noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was listening.
>> Is this normal behaviour when there is not an x session running?
> Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over
> TCP/IP.
It is running on a Unix socket. Having sent the previous question I figured
that it must listen for X to start and then call the font server. It is
good to be sure though.
Thank you for the answer.
Regards,
Bruce McDonald
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