Thanks for the reply, it was very useful to know! One of the ideas i had was reading the address from a file instead of the env. I am thinking of using dbus for simple IPC within a pc. I did not understand what you meant by... >  - file in homedir - doesn't solve this due to >   locking/network-file-system problems -K <div>On 2/28/07, Havoc Pennington < <a href="mailto:hp@redhat.com">hp@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Havoc Pennington wrote: > > This won't work, generally speaking. I think you can set the <listen> > address in session.conf to have path= instead of tmpdir= or something > like that. Oh, note that if you do this all sessions will get the same address, so only one person can log in, and they can log in only one time. Havoc </blockquote></div>