From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 11:52:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matrix.dynamic-cast.com (r175-5-dsl.sea.lightrealm.net [216.122.5.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8E737B42C for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Received: from chillipepper (chillipepper.dynamic-cast.com [192.168.1.1]) by matrix.dynamic-cast.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3MIqQU27878 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from herveyw@dynamic-cast.com) Message-ID: <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> From: "Hervey Wilson" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: XFree86-4.0.3_3 Permissions Problems Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:53:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG System is 4.3.0, XFree86 is 4.0.3_3 rebuilt and reinstalled from the ports collection yesterday lunchtime. When run from a userid other than root, XFree reports "unable to open /var/log/XFree86.0.log". Permissions for this file were 644,root,wheel. Amending the permissions to 666,root,wheel and restarting resulted in: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root Rather than just hacking my way through this, can anyone offer a suggestion regarding which install step I missed ? Thanks in advance, H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message