From owner-freebsd-gnome Sat Jul 27 3:42:51 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 77C2837B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 03:42:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nmail1.systems.pipex.net (nmail1.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3066B43E4A for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 03:42:46 -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 g6RAdase010013; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:39:36 +0100 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nmail1.systems.pipex.net (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6RAdZcm010012; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:39:35 +0100 To: Maxime Romano Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed Message-ID: <1027766375.3d427867e2fc8@netmail.pipex.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:39:35 +0100 From: Cc: , References: In-Reply-To: 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 Maxime, That's worked for! However, I'm back to my original problem: "Sawfish not running", when trying to configure Sawfish as ordinary user. Running "sawfish" at cli returns: "You can only run one window manager" Stacey Quoting Maxime Romano : > 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: > >To: robert Backhaus > >CC: Joe Marcus Clarke ,FreeBSD User Questions > List > >, > >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 : > > > > > > > > --- 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