> > Hello, > > > I have one server, with several diskless clients (except for one boot > > floppy). The diskless clients often get rebooted while running X, > > leaving the lock file on the server. > > Some times, the PID in the lock file is the next reboot taken by > > a getty. This will cause X to refuse to start up, saying that the > > X server is already running. > > You should have a different /var/ (or at leat /var/run) for every client on > the NFS-Server.
No, that's not the problem -- I do have a different /var for every client on the network, as described above: the lock file remains from the previous boot of the client. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian Linux!