From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 23 15:25:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-168.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A1837B418 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from topperwein (topperwein [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fANNOuN37530 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:25:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:24:51 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: non root XFree-4 In-Reply-To: <095d01c1737a$777ba200$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> Message-ID: <20011123182249.S37220-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ronan Lucio wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed FreeBSD-4.4 + XFree-4_1 + Kde-2.2 > Everything works fine except for the XFree just works > with root, when I do a startx by a normal user, it returns > a error: > > Fatal server error: > xf860OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions > You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. > We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! > > And my second problem is that the man doen´t works on > console. > > Does anybody know what I´m doing wrong? You didn't RTFM. cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper make install s/X/Xwrapper/ in your .xserverrc. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message