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Re: X failures if two users
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:01:34 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: X failures if two users
- References: <20040716054116.5924284C87@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> If two people use the same machine, and the first starts X, the second
> person can't start X unless they have administrator rights.
>
> Cygwin sets /tmp to have mode drwxrwxrwt which means ordinary users
> can't remove /tmp/XWin.log if it's owned by someone else. So
> subsequent attempts to start X fail because it can't write the log file.
>
> My suggestion would be for X to create the file called
> /tmp/XWin.log.$USER
you can do this with the commanline switch -logfile "/tmp/XWin.log.$USER"
bye
ago
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