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Date:      Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:55:05 -0700
From:      John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
To:        Hervey Wilson <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XFree86-4.0.3_3 Permissions Problems
Message-ID:  <3AE32909.A3089D8F@webmail.bmi.net>
References:  <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper>

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Hervey Wilson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
You need to install the wrapper port in /usr/ports/x11/wrapper

jmc

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