Re: afterstep
well, i found the problem. i'm not surprised nobody suggested it, because
it was so blazingly obvious... i changed the permissions on /tmp to 777,
and it works fine. so now i guess what i want to know is, what are the
default permissions on /tmp? i don't remember ever changing them.
-brad
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote:
>
> > I believe that /usr/X11R6/bin/X needs to be suid root.
>
> no, that wasn't the problem. note that there are no problems with any
> other wm i've tried (fvwm/2/95, olvwm, twm)
>
> i should also note that X is killed when i start up afterstep.
>
> -brad
>
> > On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Brad Bell wrote:
> >
> > > hi, i am having some trouble (with permissions?) starting up afterstep.
> > > if i start it as root, there are no problems.
> > > if i start as a normal user, i get this:
> > >
> > > velcro# cat /home/brad/.xsession-errors
> > > sh: /tmp/steprcXXXXX: Permission denied
> > > Cannot open m4-processed config file
> > > : No such file or directory
> > > xterm: fatal IO error 2 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> > >
> > > the /tmp/ thing is what throws me off. /tmp is empty before and after i
> > > try to start afterstep.
> > > my system is basically 1.3.0
> > >
> > > can anyone advise me on what to look for?
> > >
> > > -brad
> > >
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