X server will not run as user

[Roman Neuhauser]

# inmylifetime17 at optonline.net / 2005-09-25 23:51:27 -0400:
> Hello everyone, earlier on today my /var/ slice for my
> FreeBSD-5.4-release was full, so i erased some log files and the files
> inside of my /tmp/ dir also, which freed up about 60% of space. I
> restarted my laptop later on that night and when i tried to run startx
> to bring up my xserver for xfce i got this error message

> The overwriting error message was : Failed to create file '/var/tmp/.xfsm-ICE-V3CIRR : Permission 
> denied.  

> Oddly enough when i run startx as root it works, which is how im
> sending this email now. Does this make any sense to anyone?

    Wrong permissions on /var/tmp, should be 01777 (drwxrwxrwt).

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