From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 5:56:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5371914CB9 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: (qmail 64521 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1999 12:56:37 -0000 Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (24.132.26.148) by node11a94.a2000.nl with SMTP; 12 Oct 1999 12:56:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:56:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Ronald 'Ko' Klop To: Paul Horechuk Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X won't start In-Reply-To: <013001bf1446$b7718680$73f8d7a5@paul.docucom.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message