Re: installing X from -testing

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:27:26 -0400, 
> Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote in message 
> <[🔎] 3F638BBE.6090407@tacocat.net>:
>
>
> > Tom Allison wrote:
> >
> > > I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: 
> > > private socket dir: Permission denied"
> > >
> > > Root works fine, but no one else does.
> > >
> > > help?
> >
> > I was searching through the archives and found this earlier. 
> > Apparently the problem is in /tmp.
> >
> > it's owned by root.root and cannot be used by anyone else.
> >
> > This isn't a bug?
> >
> > How do I fix this?
>
>  
> ..chk 'man chmod', and 'info chown' for ideas.  ;-)

Ok, I'll figure out how to get it to root.root -- rwxrwxrwt at some point.
But I was really surprised to find this in what's been lately a relatively 
stable implimentation (albeing "testing").


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