From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 21 06:52:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA10844 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 06:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.219.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA10837 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 06:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (localhost.nanoteq.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00530 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 15:51:16 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199705211351.PAA00530@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Xauthority Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 15:51:16 +0200 From: "P. van Leeuwen" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I managed to screw the xauthority on my machine in some way. I noticed that exmh's background process stopped working. My .xsession-errors show the following : BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization); command ignored exmh-bg cannot rendez-vous with UI - exiting. Usually this is because Tk send is not working. Check the notes under Frequently Asked Questions #4a and #4b. You can find this under the Help menu. I did RTFM, and checked all the xdm config files as well as my ~/Xauthority and everything checks out. I ran xdm -debug 1 and that looks OK too, except that right after it prints out the environment, it says : Unsecure display 0: Earlier on it said Secure though. My ~/Xauthority is empty when X isn't running and contains 2 entries when I start xdm. No other programs except tk stuff complain about anything such as opening the display. Does anyone have any idea what I did or how to fix it? pierre -- Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen Electronic Engineer Powered By FreeBSD ******************************** * Nanoteq (Pty) Ltd. * * Specialists in data security * * E-mail : pvl@nanoteq.com * * Ph : +27 (0)12 665-1338 * * http://www.nanoteq.co.za * ********************************