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-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-01 11:18 .serverauth.6297
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-03 15:24 .serverauth.6348
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-01 12:07 .serverauth.6381
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-04-30 19:23 .serverauth.6432
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-04 13:55 .serverauth.6439
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-04 19:35 .serverauth.6478
-rw------- 1 fred fred 51 2006-04-29 06:13 .serverauth.6490
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-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-03 15:38 .serverauth.6497
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-05 14:08 .serverauth.6498
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-01 11:35 .serverauth.6500
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-02 14:52 .serverauth.6501
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-06 15:51 .serverauth.6503
-rw------- 1 fred fred 153 2006-05-01 13:06 .serverauth.6505
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Distribution: Slackware & Slamd64. What else is there?
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You can delete all that stuff. Each time you start an X windows session, that file gets created. I don't know why they're not being deleted; usually when the new one gets created the old one (if any) gets deleted. Or you could write a bash script to execute on shutdown or login to blast any old files.
Basically the fix is to edit your /usr/bin/startx file (or whereever startx is located for your distro, /usr/X11R6/bin/startx for my Slackware 11 box), and change the line:
Code:
xserverauthfile=$HOME/.serverauth.$$
to:
Code:
xserverauthfile=$XAUTHORITY
You can then delete your .serverauth.???? files and from now on the X authority will be written to ~/.Xauthority, no more files cluttering up your home directory.
Good advice, Kovacs. But if you edit startx, then you'll have to do that again every time after you've upgraded Xserver.
It's better to create a file named .xserverrc into your home directory and add the xserverauthfile line there, like this:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
xserverauthfile=$XAUTHORITY
Then make .xserverrc executable (chmod +x .xserverrc).
doing this on debian/testing gives the following error
$startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/fred/.serverauth.6509
giving up.
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: Connection refused (error 111): unable to connect to X server
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: No such process (error 3): Server error.
$
only after deleting the file was I able to startx again.
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