From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 7 22:53: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from patan.sun.com (patan.Sun.COM [192.18.98.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6CC37B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:52:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ktsin@acm.org) Received: from sr71.Singapore.Sun.COM ([129.158.72.11]) by patan.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07187; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acm.org (sr-csin05-03 [129.158.72.12]) by sr71.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v2.1p1) with ESMTP id NAA09267; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:52:54 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3ACFFCB6.99A70875@acm.org> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 13:52:54 +0800 From: KT Sin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, zh-TW, zh-CN, ko, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean M Hollingsworth Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to start X as any user other than root References: <003701c0bfed$c7558980$0edaa3ce@darkagetech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Make sure that you have x11/wrapper installed. You can build it from the ports collection. kt Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.3-RC and XFree86-4.0.3 from the ports collection. If > I start X as root, everything is fine. If I start X as any other user, I > get this error message: > > Fatal server error: > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log has perms 0644. Are these the correct perms? > > I looked at the list archives for the last week or so and didn't see > anything on this, but if this has been discussed already and I overlooked > it, pointing me to the right thread would be greatly appreciated. > > Sean. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message