x11 installed on my server?

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Disclaimer, to begin with - I did not personally set up this server.

I have a server that I'm leasing from a datacenter, they originally set it up with RedHat 9 and DirectAdmin. Since then I've had an outside technician upgrade the server to CentOS. I do a lot of things myself on the server, but I'm smart enough to know when it's time to call in the pros.

I was investigating some mysterious chkrootkit output this morning (turned out to be a false positive) and discovered an X11 directory on my server. I know that X11 is used for a desktop system (I have two of those here) but is there any reason why it would be installed on a server? Does DA need this for some reason? Maybe the datacenter just installed a generic version of RH9, or the tech who did the upgrade installed a generic version of CentOS?

Regardless, is it safe to un-install X, or is there a reason it needs to be on there? I'd like to keep unneeded software off of the server so there's less to worry about keeping upgraded.
 
x11 is the primary gui driver for linux you do not need it and depending on the packages you chose during installation/upgrade it could have been installed. You do not need it if you don't need a nice windows-like (but not really) interface.
 
Right, I run Linux on my desktop and my laptop here at the house, I'm pretty familiar with X11. I was just curious if for some reason DA was using it, the answer is apparently no - so I will be deleting shortly. Thanks for your answer!
 
DA does not use it but for PHP/GD TrueType font support you must have the fonts directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

Regards,
Onno
 
Oh yes, I forgot about that.
Thanks for reminding us, resolveit++
 
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