From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 21 21: 0:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-53.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B7C37B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:00:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA8D966F32; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:00:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:00:50 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Donn Miller Cc: George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xserver won't start Message-ID: <20010221210050.G66731@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010221194958.A41180@telocity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dmmiller@cvzoom.net on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:57:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 08:57:22PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:23:07PM -0600, George.Giles@mcmail.vanderbilt.= edu wrote: > > > My X server was running just fine before I updated from 4.2 release t= o 4.2 > > > stable. > > > > > > Where should I look ? >=20 > Check the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. Maybe you need the suid > bit set? >=20 > -rws--x--x 1 root wheel 1810212 Feb 21 19:26 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 > ^ >=20 > If you don't, just do chmod 4711 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. Don't do this; install the Xwrapper port instead -- the setuid bit was removed from the XFree86 in favour of the Xwrapper port for a reason (improved security). Kris --7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lJ0CWry0BWjoQKURAuxmAJ4lOX0HISCOjhdS6/WCCx/J0vP2rQCg4Nf/ RUwNe79XlfOUJEpbbSio1Jc= =3Urt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7lMq7vMTJT4tNk0a-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message