From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 10:47:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8150E37B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:47:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (x74-47.forestry.umn.edu [128.101.74.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD75743EB2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu) Received: from x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0NIlmfC020793; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:47:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h0NIlmsG020790; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:47:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:47:48 -0600 (CST) From: Charlie ROOT To: Adam Maas Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: only root can startx In-Reply-To: <049401c2c30e$732d6af0$7419cdcd@ticking> Message-ID: <20030123124448.W20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> References: <20030123122658.C20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> <049401c2c30e$732d6af0$7419cdcd@ticking> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Adam Maas wrote: > Your permissions for /var/log are wrong. they are: lorax# ls -l XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23375 Jan 23 12:20 XFree86.0.log shouldn't that be correct? > > --Adam > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie ROOT" > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:30 PM > Subject: only root can startx > > > > I am working the kinks out of an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-R. So far I see a > > problem starting X. first off xinit does not seem to work. Was that > > removed in 5.0? Second, oly root can startx. When I try as a regular user, > > I get the message: 'Fatal server error connot open log file > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log' > > > > what's going on here? > > > > thanks, > > > > Kirk > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message