On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:15:00PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > 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 On my (non-Debian) 4.3.0 it's by /usr/X11R6/bin/X being setuid root. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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