Bug#292441: Non-root startx cannot move log file

2007-01-26 Thread Brice Goglin
Hi, About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the XFree86 being unable to move the log file when executed by non-root users. The behavior seems to be fixed in Xorg nowadays (apart from some special command line options, as detailed in the BTS later). Did you reproduce this

Bug#292441: Non-root startx cannot move log file

2005-01-26 Thread Bolan Meek
Package: xserver-common Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Severity: Important Attempting to use startx from non-root account suffers fatal server error 'Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"', even after running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common, and selecting 'Console Users Only'. After ripp