From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 22 13:57:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67F437B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c4-pta-19.dial-up.net (c4-pta-19.dial-up.net [196.26.210.19]) by mercury.is.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172473FEC; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:57:40 +0200 (SAST) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:59:56 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper X-X-Sender: To: Chip Cc: Subject: Re: error on startx In-Reply-To: <01102121002620.96094@chip.wiegand.org> Message-ID: <20011022225836.P28285-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Chip wrote: > That was it - I had it set to boot up to securelevel=2. Changed it to -1 and > X works fine now, but what am I missing by making this change? Well either way you can do it by setting it to < 0 or uncomment it (meaning its disabled and defaults to -1 anyways afaik). As for what you missing best read man 7 security it explains what secure levels do and what they prevent.=) PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message