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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 
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 06:21:15 -0400
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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
> >
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