Very Computer

That's it. The server must be suid root to allow normal users to start
X . Go into /usr/X11R6/bin and change the permissions for the Xserver
executable accordingly - e.g. if using the S3 server, that would be
XF86_S3 .

Michael

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: TRANS(SocketCreateListener): failed to bind listener
: TRANS(SocketUNIXCreateListener): TRANS(SocketCreateListener) () failed
: TRANS(MakeAllCOTSServerListeners) failed to create listener for local

[stuff deleted]

: Fatal server error:
: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root

[more stuff deleted]

: Is there some file I'm missing or some permission set wrong?  I pretty much
: followed the standard Slackware 2.3 installation for Linux 1.2.8 and then
: got X all set up and working correctly as 'root'.

Your X-server is basically an executable file that needs to do some
reserved operations - so it must be root to do them.

There's 2 ways to do this:
1) run the server as root
2) setuid the server executable to root

You want to try the second - ok here goes:
- First find out your X-server executable - it's a simbolic link with the name
X - see what file it points to ( ls -l X  will do the trick )

- Go to that files directory and do the following ( i will use the name X_S3 as
the name for your file, but that's just as an example ):
 chown root:root X_S3
 chmod 6755 X_S3

( note: you must be root to execute this operations )
This should do it! Send me E-mail if this doesn't work.

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