Fatal Server error

Beecher Rintoul akbeech at northwindcom.dyndns.org
Thu Jul 8 14:29:27 PDT 2004


On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:08 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 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

Thanks for replying. I had the wrapper installed, but it wasn't working 
properly. A reinstall fixed everything. Once again thanks for the hint.

Beech

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