Not if you are trying to log to that file from an X server started under a regular user. You could put the user you want into the wheel group and then add permissions for write at the group level. Or just a+w.
Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie ROOT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: Re: only root can startx > > > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Adam Maas wrote: > > > Your permissions for /var/log are wrong. > > they are: lorax# ls -l XFree86.0.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23375 Jan 23 12:20 XFree86.0.log > > shouldn't that be correct? > > > > --Adam > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Charlie ROOT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:30 PM > > Subject: only root can startx > > > > > > > I am working the kinks out of an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-R. So far I see a > > > problem starting X. first off xinit does not seem to work. Was that > > > removed in 5.0? Second, oly root can startx. When I try as a regular user, > > > I get the message: 'Fatal server error connot open log file > > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log' > > > > > > what's going on here? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > > > Kirk > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
