Re: Error running X11: "mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied"?
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:57:22AM -0400, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> Thank you so much, Colin. The permissions on /tmp were write by owner
> only. The owner was root. I changed the permissions to write by group,
> and changed the group from root to users, which is the group my normal
> users are in. Now it works like a champ. If I had just known it was
> looking in /tmp for this, I would have thought of this right away.
Excellent - glad it helped!
For what it's worth, the normal permissions on /tmp are owner root,
group root, mode 1777 (rwxrwxrwt in 'ls -l' output). I'm not sure why
you didn't have that by default.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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