From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 11:55:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7E937B423 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from webmail.bmi.net (dsl-154.bmi.net [207.173.60.230]) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA32606; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:55:05 -0700 Message-ID: <3AE32909.A3089D8F@webmail.bmi.net> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:55:05 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hervey Wilson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.3_3 Permissions Problems References: <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message