Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.3+2
Hello,
the new X version seems to drop privileges a little too early when it
gets started with -xf86config:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/holbe% X :1 -xf86config xorg-tv.conf -nolisten tcp
|
| Fatal server error:
| Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.1.log"
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 07:04:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> That's not exactly true. Upstream Xorg allows -config/-xf86config for
> non-root with files under /etc/X11/ (given with a relative path), while
> the Debian wrapper drops privileges when these options are used, without
> looking at
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 18:33:32 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > the new X version seems to drop privileges a little too early when it
> > gets started with -xf86config:
> >
> This is on purpose, for security reasons. Upstream X.org enables the use
package x11-common
reopen 442879
thanks
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:33:32PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> If you look at the beginning of the log, you should see that it didn't
> find the xorg-tv.conf file.
No, I don't. Neither a logfile is moved nor is one written. I don't see
anything.
> This is
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