On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, MLH wrote:

> > mlh@goathill.org (MLH) writes:
> > > I remembered incorrectly. The problem when installing straight from sets,
> > > not over an existing installation is that xdm can't start:
> > >
> > > -----------------------
> > > $ cat /var/log/xdm.log
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"

Are you preserving permissions when you untar the sets? I use

   for t in x*.tgz; do tar -C / -xzvpf $t; done

The "p" is important. There are a few binaries that are supposed to
suid root or sgid.

Frederick