From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 7:45:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls05.mediaone.net (chmls05.mediaone.net [24.147.1.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA0E37B65D for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 07:45:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by chmls05.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f11FjMS07548 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:45:22 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f11FjM438289; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:45:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to startx References: <01020109425700.22409@FreeBSD.mine.nu> <5.0.2.1.0.20010131235332.02869e30@mail.enterit.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Feb 2001 10:45:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: jconner@enterit.com's message of "1 Feb 2001 05:44:33 +0100" Message-ID: <44k87a4dbi.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jconner@enterit.com (Jim Conner) writes: > Well, I admit that is something I never tried before and I usually keep my > securelevel at 2 or 3. However, Im not capable of testing this idea out > though unfortunately. We will have to wait for Alan to do it. I can't tell about these specific cases, but it is blatantly true that you can't start up an X server at a raised securelevel. Disallowing opens of /dev/mem is one of the *primary* purposes of raising your securelevel, so it stands to reason that you won't be able to run X after doing so. I'm sorry you didn't get a response on this; it's come up a number of times lately, and usually gets a quick answer. If that trend continues (where *are* people getting the idea of raising securelevel without a hint of what it does?), I'll get around to entering it in the FAQ. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message