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Date:      27 Jul 2002 20:12:43 +0100
From:      Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed
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Hi Joe,
   Here's what's in ~/.xinitrc:
/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session

That's it, as I gathered from the Handbook 2nd Ed. Ch.5 Pg 137

Does this help?

Stacey

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 18:12, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 06:39, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
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> > Hi Maxime,
> >    That's worked for!
> >=20
> > However, I'm back to my original problem:=20
> >=20
> > "Sawfish not running", when trying to configure Sawfish as ordinary use=
r.
> >=20
> > Running "sawfish" at cli returns: "You can only run one window manager"
>=20
> What window manager are you running, then?  What do you have in
> ~/.xinitrc?
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> Joe
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> >=20
> > Stacey=20
> >=20
> > Quoting Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>:
> >=20
> > > No, no!  To use startx, your X server must be SUID root!  Do to that,
> > > just=20
> > > chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 as root and you're set.
> > >=20
> > > (Oh, and try to set the permissions on XFree86.0.log to what they wer=
e.=20
> > >=20
> > > Something might break.)
> > >=20
> > > -Maxime Romano
> > >=20
> > > >From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com>
> > > >To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>
> > > >CC: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>,FreeBSD User Questions
> > > List=20
> > > ><freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,<freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS
> > > [Re:=20
> > > >Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x =3D Broken Sawfish]
> > > >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Hi Robert,
> > > >    I did as you suggested, but that only gives me a new error:
> > > >
> > > >Fatal server error:
> > > >xf86OpenConsole: server must be suid root
> > > >
> > > >Silly question, how do I get the permissions to revert back to what
> > > they=20
> > > >were:
> > > >
> > > >"rw r r root wheel"
> > > >
> > > >????
> > > >
> > > >Stacey
> > > >
> > > >Quoting robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --- sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Joe,
> > > > > >    I recompiled Sawfish, but now startx only works
> > > > > > for root.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For each user, there already exists the .xinitrc
> > > > > > file
> > > > > > with: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session being the only
> > > > > > line in there.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The error I get is:
> > > > > > Fatal Server Error:
> > > > > > Cannnot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please help me with this.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stacey
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > Check the ownership of /var/log/Free86.0.log
> > > > > ls /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > > > > it should be something like rwx_w__w_
> > > > > do chmod a+w /var/log//XFree86.0.log
> > > > > I hope.
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert Backhaus
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