In message <20011113112440.GA3632@sophos.com> you write:

|> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:54:16AM +0100, Volker Borchert wrote:
|> > + df /var/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
|> > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
|> > Uranos:/export/vtmp/Demeter
|> >                        1014887      3912    960230   1% /var/tmp
|>                                                           ^^^^^^^^
|> 
|> > [snip] connect (3, "\0\1/tmp/.X11-unix/X0", 19) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket
|>                           ^^^^
|> > operation on non-socket) 
|> 
|> You appear to have the tmp filesystem mounted on /var/tmp, but the connect
|> seems to be trying to read from /tmp

/tmp is (at least, should be; I'm pretty sure since mounting a tmpfs
on /var/tmp/.X11-unix wouldn't help if it wasn't; anyway, I'll verify
that tonight) a symlink to /var/tmp (mentioned only in my first post).

|> (unless I'm missing the meaning of the '\0\1' at the beginning of the string).

That's (struct sockaddr_un *)->sun_family - 16 bit coding AF_UNIX == 1.

	Volker