Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:03:40 -0700 From: Larry Sica <lsica1@home.com> To: "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.3_3 Permissions Problems Message-ID: <01042213034001.25431@cx408168-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> References: <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
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On Sunday 22 April 2001 11:53, Hervey Wilson wrote: > System is 4.3.0, XFree86 is 4.0.3_3 rebuilt and reinstalled from the ports > collection yesterday lunchtime. > > When run from a userid other than root, XFree reports "unable to open > /var/log/XFree86.0.log". Permissions for this file were 644,root,wheel. > Amending the permissions to 666,root,wheel and restarting resulted in: > > xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root > > Rather than just hacking my way through this, can anyone offer a suggestion > regarding which install step I missed ? > You need to do one of 2 things here: 1. use xdm or the equivalent to login 2. install Xwrapper from the ports. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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