root X problem

[Carl Parrish]

Is it just me or is it taking a *long* time for messages to show up on
the list? Never mind about this I ended up just doing xhost + I figure
out how to fix my security later. 

Carl P. 

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:26, Carl Parrish wrote:
> A long time ago I did something so that X wouldn't have access to X.
> (most of the time this if fine) but now I want to run xcdroast which has
> to be run as root. So I want to allow root to access X. here is the
> error I'm getting. 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
> Anybody have any idea how to reset this? So that root can run this
> program?
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Carl Parrish (cparrish@carlparrish.com)
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