kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy) writes:

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>hi,

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>       There is probably a trivial fix for this, but
>     please help me anyway:), I cp'ed my X386 dir to
>     another partition to help with some space problems
>     and created a sym-link in /usr to the new path.
>     But now X wont work unless I'm root. When I am
>     not root, and type startx, I get a blank screen,
>     some disk activity, and then nothing. In an 
>     effort to fix the problem, I set everything to
>     777 permissions in the new X386 directory, but
>     still no luck, could this be a problem with 
>     setuid root, if so _how_ do i do this? I have
>     no setuid binary, thanks

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>paul

The X server and xterm need to be setuid root for X to properly work
for other users. xterm needs to be so it can update utmp and change the
ownership of your pty. X386 needed to be for some reason I have forgotton
off hand. Do a chmod 4755 on each of the files in question to fix your problem.

James