Can't Open Log File

[Patrick M. Rutkowski]

I've treid to do setuid root on the Xorg binary already, it didn't help.

On 2/5/06, Björn Nilsson <bni.swe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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