From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 7 22:41:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CEC37B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 22:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (root@ns1.unixathome.org [192.168.0.20]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f385fMe57098; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:41:23 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200104080541.f385fMe57098@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: "Sean M Hollingsworth" Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 01:41:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Unable to start X as any user other than root Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <003701c0bfed$c7558980$0edaa3ce@darkagetech.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Apr 2001, at 22:35, Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 4.3-RC and XFree86-4.0.3 from the ports collection. If > I start X as root, everything is fine. If I start X as any other user, I > get this error message: > > Fatal server error: > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log has perms 0644. Are these the correct perms? mine are: $ ls -l /var/log/XFree86.0.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 20966 Mar 28 14:49 /var/log/XFree86.0.log -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message