From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 21:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C19B37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0D043E77 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe-dated-1035779413.32adc7@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 30862 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2002 04:30:14 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO fafner.dubium.com) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Oct 2002 04:30:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Bryan Cassidy Subject: Re: X will not start as root - need help Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:30:54 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <20021023020323.82932E977@server2.fastmail.fm> <20021022102820.5fe4dcd1.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <20021022102820.5fe4dcd1.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210222130.54829.joe@dubium.com> From: joe X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On October 22, 2002 08:28 am, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 02:03:23 UT > > Second Question: Why would you "NEED" to startx as root? I must be > very new or something cause I dont understand the point in starting X > as root. To more easily take advantage of the gui destruction tools :} been there, done that. -------------------------------------------------------- Joe Sotham -------------------------------------------------------- Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites by keeping them both and keeping them furious. - G.K. Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message