From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 18:19: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B8637B5CB for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 18:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 12 Aug 2000 18:17:49 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA40987; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 18:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 18:18:42 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: John Murphy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TkDesk will not start as normal user Message-ID: <20000812181842.I28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bigotfo@bigfoot.com on Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:10:27PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:10:27PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > FreeBSD-4.1 Release, XFree86-4.0.1, TkDesk-1.2 pkg. > > I thought I'd be able to work this one out, but my investigations seem > only to deepen my confusion. > > TkDesk starts fine if started by root, but as user john (wheel & network) > no go. As root or as john su'd it creates a directory in /tmp as > tkdeskPID where PID is the number of the tkdesk process. > (/tmp is a symbolic link to /usr/tmp) Try doing in by logging is as john rather than su'ing from root. You might have some messed up environmental variables after a su. And just to be sure, what does, % ls -lL /tmp Return? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message