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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: xterm seems to require group wheel
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>>>>> Matthew Stein <matt@bdd.net> writes:
> 
> I just noticed another odd thing on my FreeBSD system.  xterm's run fine,
> when the user is in group wheel.  When the user isn't in group wheel, they
> seg-fault.
> 
> Has anyone encountered this?  The privs, mode, and binary are exactly as
> they are on another system here where the xterms work fine.

Have you compiled a kernel without the COMPAT_43 option? This can
cause weird things to happen with xterms.