Re: Moved /home now lost xmessage use? Solved!
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> > Here's the weird thing. It works from root X on another partition. But I
> > created a test user and tried xmessage from there and got the same
> > error. That points to the partition? To fstab? What else? Fstab looks
> > ok, same settings on my new /hda3 as I had on /hda8...
>
> I went looking for more info in man but got a can't open temp file. that
> was the tip off, it was a permision problem but not on /home but /tmp. I
> gave tmp rwx for all and xmessage works!!
>
> BTW, what is the default for /tmp? rwx owner/group/others?
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 3072 Dec 10 12:33 tmp
The t you get when you do chmod +t if I'm not mistaken. This is what I
have here (I don't think I've ever touched it)
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> "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"
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