wierd problem

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

Stephen Adler wrote:
> [adler at office00 PDS]$ xclock
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> 
> 
> 
> Guys, I tried to open a terminal on my fedora core 6 system and I
> couldn't. Then I went to an opened terminal window and tried running
> xclock and got the error above. The problem is that I don't have that
> many windows opened!! Could there be someone who managed to attach
> themselves to the X11 and monitoring what I'm doing? Is there a way to
> check to see what clients the X11 server is serving up to see just how
> many is to many and to make sure there isn't anything funny going on on
> my system?

'xauth list' will list the connections.  Probably won't help you though.
Start up tcpdump or wireshark to see if something funny is going on.

Matt

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