on Tue, 01 Jan 2002 08:01:08PM -0500, dman insinuated: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 05:24:12PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | (potato, 2.4.9) > | running xscreensaver but it hasn't for some time started up by itself > | when i start X. it says it is: > | > | orange:~> xscreensaver > | xscreensaver: already running on display :0.0 (window 0x800001) > | from process 432 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > I would track this down, this is likely the source of the problem. > My guess is that there is a lock file sitting somewhere with "432" > in it. What is process 432? I get this from everybuddy frequently > the time because it doesn't remove the lock file when I logout from > gnome and then thinks it is already running when it isn't.
not sure what you're talking about here ... what exactly is a lockfile, and how would i go about tracking it down and killing it? here's everything i know about process 432: orange:~> ps aux | grep xscr nori 432 0.0 0.6 2964 840 ? S 2001 0:04 /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver as for anything i know about lockfiles, orange:~> ls -la /var/lock/ total 2 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jan 1 07:36 ./ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Aug 22 11:03 ../ ... nothing having to do with a lockfile on xscreensaver. would it be there? if not, where? tia again, </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html
