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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:22:46 EST
From:      mike johnson <ahze@slaughter.necro.edu>
To:        "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@avaya.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root
Message-ID:  <20001113182246.9DB0B1DC6@baddog.yi.org>

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sounds like your premissions are messed up. 

try

chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/*
chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/X*



On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Cambria, Mike wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:36:16 -0500
> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> From: "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@avaya.com>
> Subject: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root
> 
> 
> I can start XFree86 4.0.1 (and kde2) just fine as root, but received the
> following error as a normal user:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
> 
> I am running 4.2-Beta (cvsup as of Thursday 9 November).  The XFree86-4
> and
> kde2 ports are installed.  My graphics card is the i810.
> 
> The only problem I see running as root is I cannot logout of KDE.  To
> exit I
> use control-alt-backspace.  Other than that, the system runs just fine.
> 
> Any ideas as to what the problem is?
> 
> Thanks,
> MikeC
> 
> 
> 
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