Fatal Server error

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Thu Jul 8 14:08:27 PDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:49:34PM -0800, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting the following when I try to startx from another user besides root:
> 
> Fatal server error: Cannot move old logfile /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old
> 
> I searched the mailing lists, but aside from a couple of references, I didn't 
> find any solutions. Any help would be appreciated.

Install the x11/wrapper port if you want to be able to run startx as a
mortal user.  

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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