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["Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <s.molnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was the solution.

Many thanks.

Now, the only thing that I wonder about is why didn't the process of 
creating a user change the permissions on Xorb?

At 04:09 PM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:07, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> > I just installed SuSE9.2 on my IBM T20 laptop with the KDE desktop.
> >
> > I can start X as root, but when I attempt to start X as a user I get the
> > message:
> >
> > Cannot move old log file ("var/log/Xorg.0.log" to
> > "var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"
> >
> > and further refers me to wiki.X.org which happens to be down for
> > rebuilding.
> >
> > If I do a su as a user then X opens normally but as the root user.
> >
> > Any assistance will be appreciated.
>
> I think your problem is with the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
>
> Try
>
> chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
>
> and then try startx again.
>
> Did you by any chance select "paranoid" permissions in the installation. You
> should be aware that very many things will fail to work with the "paranoid"
> settings.
>
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Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.                     Life is a fuzzy set
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