From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 15:22:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sf-mx1.Snap.COM (sf-mx1.snap.com [206.132.167.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB30F37B92C; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from FranciscoS@nbci.com) Received: from exchange.snap.com (exchange.snap.com [10.100.1.19]) by sf-mx1.Snap.COM (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3DMLup17089; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by exchange.snap.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <2P0XNAFC>; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:17:30 -0700 Message-ID: <4BA40B5A514ED311B9A40008C7DFB0A101297824@exchange2.snap.com> From: Francisco Sanchez To: "'jms235@sisna.com'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" , Francisco Sanchez Subject: RE: silly error Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:20:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yes, the user is invited to that group ::::::: NBCi ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: = =20 ::: ::: francisco j sanchez ::: Software Operations Engineer ::: v://415.375.5380 e://franciscos@nbci.com ::: -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Slivko [mailto:jms235@sisna.com] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:01 PM To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'; 'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'; Francisco Sanchez Subject: Re: silly error Did you try adding that user into the root/wheel group? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Francisco Sanchez Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:51:57 -0700 >=D7 hello, >=D7 i am still pretty new to the FreeBSD world, and the X world,=20 >=D7 and, yes, also the WindowMaker world. if my question sounds=20 >=D7 a little simplistic, please bear with me. anyway, i recently=20 >=D7 installed FreeBSD 4.0, with XFree86-4.0,=20 >=D7 XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3, and windowmaker-0.61.1. Whenever i=20 >=D7 try to startx, it fails with the following error message: >=D7=20 >=D7 Fatal server error: >=D7 xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions >=D7 You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. >=D7 We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! >=D7=20 >=D7 now, this is obviosly some sort of permissions error, as i=20 >=D7 can startx with sudo and as root, but not as any other user=20 >=D7 on my box. i've tried using Xwrapper, and xdm, but to no=20 >=D7 avail. what am i doing wrong? thanx in advance for your help. >=D7=20 >=D7 also, a side note, what is the difference between=20 >=D7 windowmaker-0.61.1 and windowmaker-i18n-0.61.1? what are the=20 >=D7 i18n extensions? thanx again. >=D7=20 >=D7 -=3Df=3D-=20 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message