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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 17:48:31 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: groff and X11 broken (before gcc3.2)
Message-ID:  <al089f$2hak$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <akvltr$1lu$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <1030983769.499.15.camel@anholt.dyndns.org>

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Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote:

> > $ startx
> > [...]
> > xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
> > xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Of course those xinit errors are useless; I should have looked at
XFree86.0.log.

> You need to either reinstall Xwrapper port, or setuid root your XFree86
> and accept the possible security holes.

*Smacks forehead*
I know that.  I really do.  I guess I wasn't quite awake yet this
morning.

> I wish we could accept having some sort of suid Xwrapper installed with
> XFree86-4-Server, but that would probably be shot down for security
> concerns by those who don't use startx.

I only use startx because xdm is chronically broken on alpha (at
least the way I use it).

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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