Can't Open Log File

[Björn Nilsson]

I think this happens if the Xorg binary is not setuid root.

Regards
/Björn

On 2/5/06, Patrick M. Rutkowski <rutski89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just compiled xorg from source as a non root user. I installed it in
> ~/apps/xorg/ and now when I try to run startx the server fails saying
> that it can't open /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I understand that I can't
> write to /var/log since I'm a non-root user, but I can't for the life
> of me figure out how to tell Xorg to write to a different logfile or
> simply just skip logging.
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