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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:56:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Ronald 'Ko' Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl>
To:        Paul Horechuk <phorechuk@docucom.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: X won't start
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910121452001.64453-100000@bak.evertsen.nl>
In-Reply-To: <013001bf1446$b7718680$73f8d7a5@paul.docucom.ca>

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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Paul Horechuk wrote:

> Thanks for a couple of previous suggestions, but I still have the same
> problem. I checked the symbolic link for X and it appeared correct, except
> for the group access:
> 
> lrwxrwxr-x   1 root     12000       24 May 28 20:58 /usr/X11R6/bin/X ->
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64*
> 

A link doesn't have (used) permissions. You must look to the permissions
of the file where the link points to.

Think about it. If the permissions of the link matter, everybody can make
a link to every program and give himself the permissions he/she likes.


Greetings,

Ronald.

-- 
Ronald Klop
http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/



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