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Re: No config file found?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David C Zhang)
Sat Feb 3 18:59:35 1996
From: David C Zhang <davidz@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 1996 16:13:07 EST."
<199602032113.QAA04293@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 18:55:28 EST
> > In addition, thou shalt be sure to start x as root after changing
> > the dm line in /etc/ttys to on.
>
> No, that's not right.
>
> > Thou shalt not take the failure to startx as root before changing
> > this line to mean that thou shalt not startx as root.
>
> Huh? That has absolutely nothing to do with it.
>
> startx should always work if there is no X server running,
> irregardless of the state of /etc/ttys.
>
> Changing /etc/ttys and HUPing init will cause xlogin and X
> to be started together, and kept running.
>
> These are independant, largely unrelated processes.
>
> --jhawk
in order for startx/xinit to work for anyuser, /etc/XF86Config have to be
readable by everyone. When I had the same error, I fixed it by changing
the permissions. Sounds like this is the problem here.
David
