Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:50:01 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Charlie ROOT" <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>, "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: only root can startx Message-ID: <023f01c2c310$3c9e5e20$0605010a@VELDYT> References: <20030123122658.C20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> <049401c2c30e$732d6af0$7419cdcd@ticking> <20030123124448.W20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
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Not if you are trying to log to that file from an X server started under a regular user. You could put the user you want into the wheel group and then add permissions for write at the group level. Or just a+w. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie ROOT" <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> To: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: Re: only root can startx > > > 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 > > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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