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Date:      Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:47:39 -0500
From:      Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
To:        Michael Turner <mike@inethouston.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: starting X
Message-ID:  <20010429094739.A6595@cec.wustl.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01042901451900.70634@mike.inethouston.net>; from mike@inethouston.net on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:45:19AM -0500
References:  <01042901451900.70634@mike.inethouston.net>

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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:45:19AM -0500, Michael Turner wrote:
> Hi all, I am having a problem i have X windows installed and Kde2.
> The problem is that i can start kde fine with being root. But i can not
> start it being a regular user some odd reason. Any suggestions?
> 
> heres what happens when i start it being a user--
> 
> Fatal Server error: Can not open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
> 
> gving up.
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error

Yes. If you installed the port or package yourself, you missed the
warning message it gave you. Go to /usr/ports/x11/wrapper and do a `make
install clean` to install xwrapper.

If you don't want to that, set the setuid bit on the XFree86 executable. 

-- 
Andrew Hesford
ajh3@chmod.ath.cx

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