From: beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Subject: Re: System file in /tmp
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
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In article <C5JJIG.Doy@acsu.buffalo.edu>, lusardi@cs.buffalo.edu (Christopher Lusardi) writes:
|> 
|> What is the directory .X11-unix for in /tmp? When I start
|> x, it is created by the system. This directory wasn't created 
|> by root, and it contains an empty file (X0) that is owned by me. 
|> 

It's the Unix Domain Socket (local connection) to your XServer.
Try to rm it :)

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