On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:51:37PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote: > > >Can you also confirm that XFree86 always works, independent of whether > >gdm is installed or not, and independent of what user runs it? > > ok, I've got 3 users here: 'root' , 'leszek' and 'blah' ( which is just a > dummy user created to test startx and XFree86 ) > > I purged gdm again, killed the X server, and tried 'startx-ing' with the > three users. root and blah could do it, leszek - no. > > I then tried to issue 'XFree86'. root could do it, both blah and leszek > failed with > > Fatal server error: > Cannot move old log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old > > No wonder, since > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/log | grep XFree > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40196 Apr 3 00:44 XFree86.0.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40078 Apr 3 00:43 XFree86.0.log.old > > However, as I said above, 'blah' still can issue 'startx' with no > apparent problems at all! Well, this is interesting, though probably not related to the original problem. X should be SUID root
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 7860 2005-02-23 04:07 /usr/bin/X11/X which is I guess how its supposed to be relocating the log files. Can you confirm that your permissions match: drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2005-04-02 11:42 /var/log Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
