From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 08:25:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1F237B401 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.adelphia.net (mta7.adelphia.net [64.8.50.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECBC43F75 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:25:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta7.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030720152553.FPCJ340.mta7.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:25:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1AB481.5010600@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:25:53 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@bofh.bg References: <1058624617.3f1954691cbfc@mail.orbitel.bg> In-Reply-To: <1058624617.3f1954691cbfc@mail.orbitel.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT:escaping X barfings X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:25:55 -0000 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