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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To: "Charlie ROOT" <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>,
	"Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net>
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References: <20030123122658.C20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> <049401c2c30e$732d6af0$7419cdcd@ticking> <20030123124448.W20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: only root can startx
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:50:01 -0600
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Not if you are trying to log to that file from an X server started under a
regular user.  You could put the user you want into the wheel group and then
add permissions for write at the group level.  Or just a+w.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie ROOT" <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
To: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net>
Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: only root can startx


>
>
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Adam Maas wrote:
>
> > Your permissions for /var/log are wrong.
>
> they are: lorax# ls -l XFree86.0.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  23375 Jan 23 12:20 XFree86.0.log
>
> shouldn't that be correct?
> >
> > --Adam
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charlie ROOT" <root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu>
> > To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:30 PM
> > Subject: only root can startx
> >
> >
> > > I am working the kinks out of an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-R. So far I
see a
> > > problem starting X. first off xinit does not seem to work. Was that
> > > removed in 5.0? Second, oly root can startx. When I try as a regular
user,
> > > I get the message: 'Fatal server error connot open log file
> > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log'
> > >
> > > what's going on here?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Kirk
> > >
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