Annoying win key problem

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 13:08 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:35 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
> > found two dead links against the old /usr/X11/bin/X
> > and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkbd Geeezz... X11 doesn't exist anymore
> > (<sigh> now everydarn thing is in /usr/bin)
> 
> I can understand the move away from /usr/X11...  but why didn't it go
> to /usr/share/X11 or something like that, rather than straight into the
> root trees?
> 
> If I do a "ls -l /etc/X11", I also find two dead links, thus:
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Nov  4 01:41 X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 Sep 23  2005 X.rpmsave -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
> 
> I expect the second one (the rpmsave) does no harm, but I don't like the
> looks of the first.  What's really odd, is that despite the listing
> highlighting the link as broken (inverse red highlighting), the files
> *are* where it points to.  Though the Xorg file (in /usr/X11R6/bin/) is
> also oddly highlighted in inverse red.  I presume that's due to the
> owner sticky bit being set.
> 
> -rws--x--x  1 root root 2191903 Sep 22  2005 Xorg
> 
This is SUID so it is giving you a warning about that.  The soft link
pointing to it is also giving you the same warning.  Unfortunately they
chose the same colors to mark a SUID file as they did for a broken link.

> My system was a clean install, and normal updates via YUM.
> 
My FC5 system (clean install) has the binary X in /usr/bin

My FC4 system (clean install) has X in /usr/X11R6/bin and in /etc/X11,
both with a link to the binary /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg. 

I think the version of FC you are running makes a difference.

There also is the version difference of Xorg between the two systems.
FC4 has xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 and 
FC5 has xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-9.fc5
so there was a change in the positioning of files as they moved to the
Xorg version 1 release. 

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