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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:09:02 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
To:        Koroush Saraf <koroush.saraf@lmco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 runs as root but not as user!
Message-ID:  <20020725190902.GL94707@vectors.cx>
In-Reply-To: <003b01c2340e$f3789e30$5518c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>
References:  <003b01c2340e$f3789e30$5518c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>

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have you installed /usr/ports/x11/wrapper?

-Adam


>> (07.25.2002 @ 1210 PST): Koroush Saraf said, in 0.7K: <<
> This is probably a trivial and old question, but I havn't found an answer
> yet.
> 
> I just installed BSD 4.6 and can't get XFree86 to run as a user.
> It works fine as root.  So I figure some permission is not set correctly
> somewhere.
> I tried to chmod 4755 on startx just to see what happens, and nothing
> exciting happened!
> The error is below:  Please help! and include this email address in the
> reply
> 
> 
> > Fatal server error:
> > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
> >
> > giving up.
> > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
> 
> 
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>> end of "XFree86 runs as root but not as user!" from Koroush Saraf <<


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