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From: "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@avaya.com>
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Subject: RE: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:31:57 -0500
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Thanks,

Setuid ( chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 ) did the trick.    This is the
3rd system which I recently installed X & kde2, yet the others were setup
just fine.  Go figure.

MikeC

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	mike johnson [mailto:ahze@baddog.yi.org]
		Sent:	Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM
		To:	Cambria, Mike; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
		Subject:	Re: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root


		sounds like your premissions are messed up. 

		try

		chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/*
		chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/X*



		On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Cambria, Mike wrote:
		> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:36:16 -0500
		> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'"
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
		> From: "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@avaya.com>
		> Subject: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root
		> 
		> 
		> I can start XFree86 4.0.1 (and kde2) just fine as root,
but received the
		> following error as a normal user:
		> 
		> Fatal server error:
		> Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
		> 
		> I am running 4.2-Beta (cvsup as of Thursday 9 November).
The XFree86-4
		> and
		> kde2 ports are installed.  My graphics card is the i810.
		> 
		> The only problem I see running as root is I cannot logout
of KDE.  To
		> exit I
		> use control-alt-backspace.  Other than that, the system
runs just fine.
		> 
		> Any ideas as to what the problem is?
		> 
		> Thanks,
		> MikeC
		> 
		> 
		> 
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