From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 13: 1:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB05537B424 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:01:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lsica1@home.com) Received: from cx408168-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com ([24.20.227.61]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010422200127.RJQY24113.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx408168-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com>; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:01:27 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Larry Sica To: "Hervey Wilson" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.3_3 Permissions Problems Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:03:40 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> In-Reply-To: <00cb01c0cb5d$75e123e0$0101a8c0@chillipepper> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042213034001.25431@cx408168-b.escnd1.sdca.home.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 22 April 2001 11:53, Hervey Wilson wrote: > System is 4.3.0, XFree86 is 4.0.3_3 rebuilt and reinstalled from the ports > collection yesterday lunchtime. > > When run from a userid other than root, XFree reports "unable to open > /var/log/XFree86.0.log". Permissions for this file were 644,root,wheel. > Amending the permissions to 666,root,wheel and restarting resulted in: > > xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root > > Rather than just hacking my way through this, can anyone offer a suggestion > regarding which install step I missed ? > You need to do one of 2 things here: 1. use xdm or the equivalent to login 2. install Xwrapper from the ports. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message