Bug 11270 - -config and -xf86config options differ
Summary: -config and -xf86config options differ
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: 7.2 (2007.02)
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep...
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Reported: 2007-06-14 14:12 UTC by Brice Goglin
Modified: 2007-06-14 14:20 UTC (History)
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Description Brice Goglin 2007-06-14 14:12:12 UTC 
Bug reported on the Debian BTS by Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe 2 years ago, still applies to Xserver 1.3. See below.

Brice



While migrating from XFree86 to X.org, I tried to replace the -xf86config option via -config which, according to X -help, should do the same (although X.org does understand -xf86config, it's not documented).

Surprisingly, `X :1 -xf86config xorg.conf' works as expected, while `X :1 -config xorg.conf' does not:
  Fatal server error:
  Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.1.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.1.log.old"

It seems as if -config releases privileges too early while -xf86config
does not.
Comment 1 Brice Goglin 2007-06-14 14:20:04 UTC 
Oops, it's debian-specific, sorry for the noise, closing.

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