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> References: <F87DWqhssyxhYwrdrEb000265d1@hotmail.com> <1027766375.3d427867e2fc8@netmail.pipex.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 06:39, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > Hi Maxime, > That's worked for! > > However, I'm back to my original problem: > > "Sawfish not running", when trying to configure Sawfish as ordinary user. > > 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 > > Stacey > > Quoting Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>: > > > No, no! To use startx, your X server must be SUID root! Do to that, > > just > > chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 as root and you're set. > > > > (Oh, and try to set the permissions on XFree86.0.log to what they were. > > > > Something might break.) > > > > -Maxime Romano > > > > >From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> > > >To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> > > >CC: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>,FreeBSD User Questions > > List > > ><freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,<freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> > > >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS > > [Re: > > >Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x = 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 > > >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 > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > > > > http://health.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9QtRvb2iPiv4Uz4cRAuysAKCB18zi8GMTCGO5caraEyPLI2wdfACfaqaX C0U1Xht9iJWfIf8hhPrpvjk= =gojy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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