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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:45:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Issues With X Windows
To: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>, Ben Shin <bshin2000@hotmail.com>,
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I think this was looked at last week. check 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=4213576+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020728.freebsd-questions

I think the problem may be x"f86OpenConsole: server
must be suid root" to quote an error.


--- Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> what's the permission on that log file?
> 
> -ed
> 
> --- Ben Shin <bshin2000@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried to start x windows using a non-root
> account.
> >  However, I got a fatal 
> > error message saying I cannot open a log file. I
> can
> > startx as root.  How 
> > can I fix this mistake?
> > 
> >
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