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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Lots of .serverauth.xxxx in my ~

Well, the title is self-explanatory. By now I have around 20 files with this pattern in my home directory. What I'm doing that may be the cause?

My inittab is the following (it starts X using my user without a login manager):

id:5:initdefault:
x:5:once:/bin/su andre -l -c "/bin/zsh --login -c startx >/dev/null 2>&1"

My window manager is awesome and I halt the computer running `su -c halt` in a terminal on X.

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Lots of .serverauth.xxxx in my ~

If X isn't killed properly, the file will remain. They are harmless and can be deleted.

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andre.ramaciotti

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Lots of .serverauth.xxxx in my ~

Yes, I know, I've already removed some of them before, but how should I kill X so these files are deleted?

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