Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 06:21:15 -0400 From: "Maxime Romano" <verbophobe@hotmail.com> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed Message-ID: <F87DWqhssyxhYwrdrEb000265d1@hotmail.com>
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No, no! To use startx, your X server must be SUID root! Do to that, just chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 as root and you're set. (Oh, and try to set the permissions on XFree86.0.log to what they were. Something might break.) -Maxime Romano >From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> >To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> >CC: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>,FreeBSD User Questions List ><freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,<freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: >Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x = Broken Sawfish] >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100 > > >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 <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > > > --- 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 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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