From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 7 17:34: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail48.fg.online.no (mail48-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089CE37B40F for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nyogtha@flipp.net) Received: from cthulhu.flipp.net (ti51a80-0961.bb.online.no [148.122.15.192]) by mail48.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA26486 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 02:33:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010808023129.00a3fc30@freenix.no> X-Sender: nyogtha@freenix.no X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:33:33 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Aslak Evang Subject: Re: XFree86 wierdness In-Reply-To: <20010808114015.B49570@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010807184726.B1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20010806181635.A3544@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <5622162137.20010806152720@dsl-only.net> <4gwv4gyehk.v4g@localhost.localdomain> <20010807173144.A1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20010808093942.B38018@itouchnz.itouch> <20010807184726.B1531@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Fatal server error: > > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" >When you're configuring and testing your X setup, you need to be >running as root. Are you getting that error when you run startx as >root? I got this error too for a while when trying to run X as any "normal" user. root worked fine. The first solution I tried was running XDM at boot which makes X work for everybody but seeing as I didnt want to boot into graphics mode all the time I ended up doing a chmod 6555 on the binarie(s). I've read somewhere that thats not a recommended way of doing it, but it works fine for me. - Aslak -- __________ ___ ___ _________ / / / / / / ___/ / ______ / / / / / / ______/ / / / / "As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." - Woody Allen n.y.o.g.t.h.a.@.f.l.i.p.p.n.e.t PGP key at http://nyogtha.flipp.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message