From owner-freebsd-gnome Sat Jul 27 2:53:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4732137B400; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (nmail1.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCBB43E3B; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6R9rRse009588; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6R9rR7P009587; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100 To: robert Backhaus Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x = Broken Sawfish] Message-ID: <1027763607.3d426d977139b@netmail.pipex.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100 From: Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , FreeBSD User Questions List , References: <20020727094350.11665.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020727094350.11665.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: PIPEX NetMail 2.2.0-pre13 X-PIPEX-username: sroberts%dsl.pipex.com X-Originating-IP: 81.86.129.77 X-Usage: Use of PIPEX NetMail is subject to the PIPEX Terms and Conditions of use Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Robert, I did as you suggested, but that only gives me a new error: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: server must be suid root Silly question, how do I get the permissions to revert back to what they were: "rw r r root wheel" ???? Stacey Quoting robert Backhaus : > > --- sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > > > Hi Joe, > > I recompiled Sawfish, but now startx only works > > for root. > > > > For each user, there already exists the .xinitrc > > file > > with: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session being the only > > line in there. > > > > The error I get is: > > Fatal Server Error: > > Cannnot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > > Please help me with this. > > > > Stacey > > > > > Check the ownership of /var/log/Free86.0.log > ls /var/log/XFree86.0.log > it should be something like rwx_w__w_ > do chmod a+w /var/log//XFree86.0.log > I hope. > > Robert Backhaus > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message