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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100
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]
Message-ID:  <1027763607.3d426d977139b@netmail.pipex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020727094350.11665.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020727094350.11665.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com>

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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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