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Date:      27 Jul 2002 13:12:16 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com
Cc:        Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed
Message-ID:  <1027789936.46963.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1027766375.3d427867e2fc8@netmail.pipex.net>
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On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 06:39, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
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> Hi Maxime,
>    That's worked for!
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> However, I'm back to my original problem:=20
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> "Sawfish not running", when trying to configure Sawfish as ordinary user.
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> Running "sawfish" at cli returns: "You can only run one window manager"

What window manager are you running, then?  What do you have in
~/.xinitrc?

Joe

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> Stacey=20
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> Quoting Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>:
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> > 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.
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> > (Oh, and try to set the permissions on XFree86.0.log to what they were.=
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> > Something might break.)
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> > -Maxime Romano
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> > >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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