Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:47:29 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: inmylifetime17@optonline.net Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X server will not run as user Message-ID: <20050926064729.GB1116@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <e3c2a5d1369c.433737ff@optonline.net> References: <e3c2a5d1369c.433737ff@optonline.net>
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# inmylifetime17@optonline.net / 2005-09-25 23:51:27 -0400:
> Hello everyone, earlier on today my /var/ slice for my
> FreeBSD-5.4-release was full, so i erased some log files and the files
> inside of my /tmp/ dir also, which freed up about 60% of space. I
> restarted my laptop later on that night and when i tried to run startx
> to bring up my xserver for xfce i got this error message
> The overwriting error message was : Failed to create file '/var/tmp/.xfsm-ICE-V3CIRR : Permission
> denied.
> Oddly enough when i run startx as root it works, which is how im
> sending this email now. Does this make any sense to anyone?
Wrong permissions on /var/tmp, should be 01777 (drwxrwxrwt).
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