From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 12: 7:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4144337B401 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgw2a.lmco.com (mailgw2a.lmco.com [192.91.147.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7608243E31 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:07:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from koroush.saraf@lmco.com) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw2a.lmco.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6PJ7Yc15578 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:07:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.lmco.com by lmco.com (PMDF V6.1-1 #40643) id <0GZT00D01JSLD7@lmco.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BSDWIN2KKOROUSH ([129.197.24.85]) by lmco.com (PMDF V6.1-1 #40643) with SMTP id <0GZT00AULJSJ15@lmco.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:10:33 -0700 From: Koroush Saraf Subject: XFree86 runs as root but not as user! To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <003b01c2340e$f3789e30$5518c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is probably a trivial and old question, but I havn't found an answer yet. I just installed BSD 4.6 and can't get XFree86 to run as a user. It works fine as root. So I figure some permission is not set correctly somewhere. I tried to chmod 4755 on startx just to see what happens, and nothing exciting happened! The error is below: Please help! and include this email address in the reply > Fatal server error: > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > giving up. > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message