unexplained loss of access to xnews display

2007-12-25 8:42:00

The problem was caused by a cron process that deleted everything in /tmp

that was not accessed for three days ... including the UNIX sockets in

/tmp/.NeWs-unix and /tmp/.X11-unix needed for X to communicate with the

server for :0.

Thanks to all who responded so quickly:

dale@cmr.com (Dale 'Speedy' Maurice)

brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)

gdmr@dcs.ed.ac.uk

Steve Mowbray <stevem@cara.maths.heriot-watt.ac.uk>

teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)

Eirik Fuller <eirik@elf.Ithaca.NY.US>

Mike

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