[Xpert]X Port numbers not be reused

[Mark Cuss]

Hello all   We run a RedHat 7.2 server in our office (been up for 180 days).  We run X on the server, and clients connect to the server with their Windows boxes using Exceed.  This had always worked very well....  until....yesterday, we noticed that the port numbers that X uses for the client connections don't seem to be "recycled".  From what I understand, X starts its port numbers at 6000.  Over the course of the past six months, the port numbers have slowly crawled up to the 50,000 range.  This poses a problem for us as we use ports in the 50,000 range for inter process communications between our software and these ports are now being used by X so we aren't able to open them.   I tried killing the X server (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE).  I also tried restarting the xfs service as well as the network service but with no luck - X continues to use ports in the 50,000 range instead of starting again at the first free port after 6000.   If anyone has seen this before or has any hints on how to resolve this, please let me know - it would be greatly appreciated.   The machine is:     Dual Pentium III Coppermine 1 GHz server (Dell Poweredge 1400)     768 MB RAM     108 GB SCSI disk space     Video card is an on-board ATI Rage XL     XFree 4.1.0 (RedHat 7.2 stock)     Kernel 2.4.13 (compiled from vanilla source)   If anyone needs any more details please let me know   Thanks   Mark Cuss Real Time Systems Analyst CDL Systems Ltd. Suite 230 3553 - 31 Street NW Calgary, Alberta T2L 2K7   Phone (403) 289-1733 extension 226 Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.cdlsystems.com