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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:20:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.1-RELEASE and xdm 
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970331111142.5723D-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970401001305.574B-100000@krondor.cpn.org.au>

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On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Doug White wrote:
> > Good question.  Permissions?
> 
> The permissions and ownership of the files are identical in both locations
> (/usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib)

Do you have xdm setuid root?  This would cause LD_LIBRARY_PATH  to
be ignored and would explain your problem.

Dan
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