Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:25:53 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: root@bofh.bg Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT:escaping X barfings Message-ID: <3F1AB481.5010600@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <1058624617.3f1954691cbfc@mail.orbitel.bg> References: <1058624617.3f1954691cbfc@mail.orbitel.bg>
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root@bofh.bg wrote: > Hello all! > CAn you tell me how a procedure how to patch X and kernel > to avoid X barfings from securelevel? My release is a FreeBSD 5.1. You might want to replace "barfing" with an actual description of the problem. > I looked for patches, unfortunately they're more than a year old.Googled and > searched on MARC - nothing new under the sun. Therefore I suppose all works ok > in -CURRENT.I'm thinking of: > 1) CVSup src and ports to "." I wouldn't cvsup src to . unless you plan on developing. > 2) adding `options APERTURE` to my kernel > 3) make buildkernel && make install kernel && make buildworld > 4) reboot and face the music Do as you feel you must, but I installed 5.1-RELEASE and X from ports and it's running fine. Are you starting from a terminal with 'startx' or do you start xdm at boot? If you use startx, I believe you need to install x-wrapper to get around permission issues. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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