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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:47:48 -0600 (CST)
From:      Charlie ROOT <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
To:        Adam Maas <mykroft@explosive.mail.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: only root can startx
Message-ID:  <20030123124448.W20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
In-Reply-To: <049401c2c30e$732d6af0$7419cdcd@ticking>
References:  <20030123122658.C20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> <049401c2c30e$732d6af0$7419cdcd@ticking>

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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" <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
> 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
> >
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