Hi Bill, But who's using /usr/X11R6/bin/X? Mandrake uses /etc/X11/X which is a direct link to XMach64 and not to /usr/X11R6/bin/X nor Xwraper Guy Zelck -----Original Message----- From: wsuetholz@centonline.com [mailto:wsuetholz@centonline.com] Sent: woensdag 29 maart 2000 17:25 To: Zelck, Guy Cc: KDE general mailing list Subject: RE: KDM won't start KDE after upgrade to XFree86-3.3.6 with Mand AFAIK: Xwrapper is what you are supposed to run instead of X. Xwrapper is owned by root and has the SUID bit set (or should), whereas X does not have the SUID bit set anymore. This was a security feature. Bill Suetholz > One other thing I noticed and that leaves me somewhat puzzled: > In /etc/X11/ there's an link called X pointing to your graph. card's X > server in /usr/X11R6/bin, that I understand 100%. > But in this dir there's another link called X pointing to Xwrapper. What is > this for in god's name? > CU, > > Guy. > -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral