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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