xfs running with no x session

[Rick Stevens]

Bruce McDonald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was just checking what services were listening to ports on my machine and
> noticed that xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) was listening.  Is
> this normal behaviour when there is not an x session running?

Yes, but it should be running on a local Unix-domain socket, not over
TCP/IP.
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