From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 12: 8:40 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 4B31137B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFD943E31 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (09eb1dc50b032b0c46cbc7fac4f881a3@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6PJ922e050842; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6PJ92na050841; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:09:02 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Koroush Saraf Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 runs as root but not as user! Message-ID: <20020725190902.GL94707@vectors.cx> References: <003b01c2340e$f3789e30$5518c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003b01c2340e$f3789e30$5518c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 have you installed /usr/ports/x11/wrapper? -Adam >> (07.25.2002 @ 1210 PST): Koroush Saraf said, in 0.7K: << > 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 > >> end of "XFree86 runs as root but not as user!" from Koroush Saraf << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message