Re: Running startx fails as a non-privileged user

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 15:33 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:14:10 -0600, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > $ startx
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"
> 
> Is it possible that X didn't exit cleanly, and is leaving behind a
> file that would ordinarily be deleted?

That's not what the error message says.

Normally, how does a non-privileged user access these files?

# ls -o /var/log/X*
-rw-r--r--  60852 2005-02-02 13:07 /var/log/XFree86.0.log
-rw-r--r--  60852 2005-02-02 12:27 /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old