Re: /tmp/.X11-unix in multi-user environnement

[bertrand marquis <bertrand dot marquis at sysgo dot com>]

Le jeu 07/10/2004 Ã 16:41, Dave Carrigan a Ãcrit :
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:37:49PM +0200, bertrand marquis wrote:
> 
> > I'm using cygwin on a windows workstation with several user. The Xwin
> > server user a directory placed in /tmp named .x11-unix.
> > 
> > The problem is that when one user create it, all other user can't start
> > XWin as they are not able to overwrite to this file.
> > 
> > Is there any way to specifie an other place for this or to put it into
> > home directory as it should be i think ?
> 
> What we did was create a tmp directory for each user and make /tmp a user
> mount to that personal tmp directory:
> 
>  mkdir /cygdrive/c/tmp/username
>  mount -f -u -t "c:/tmp/username" /tmp

Thank you very much for the tip !!! That's working perfectly now.

Bertrand