On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote: > Then perhaps something got unset from being SUID root on my > system during installation. Looking at /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, > the last line exec's xinit ... ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit shows:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit isn't the wrapper, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is. xinit and/or xdm both invoke that to start the X server, which in turn digs around in /etc/X11/Xserver to find out (a) who may run it and (b) what the correct X server to run is. Incidentally, why does /usr/bin/X11, which the X and FHS folks (if I recall correctly) deprecated, seem to be making a resurgence in Debian? > Sure, why not? Or then, if the *only* mouse device is /dev/sunmouse > then /dev/mouse could be the device and /dev/sunmouse can be > skipped altogether... I'm indifferent... it's truly a matter of > preference. I for one would probably just do the symlink method. I'd rather not see /dev/sunmouse disappear, because there may be things unbeknownst to both of us that refer to it directly. --Jeff
