From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 27 07:35:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05444 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 07:35:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05439 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 07:35:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from quisqueya.natserv.com (slip166-72-219-145.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.219.145]) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA07304; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 10:35:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199809271435.KAA07304@federation.addy.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 10:35:37 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: francisco@natserv.com From: Francisco Reyes To: rick hamell Subject: RE: GIMP Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Sep-98 rick hamell wrote: > > Can any one tell me why GIMP loads fine under XFree86, but then > as it's supposed to bring up the tool bar, it just kinda does nothing. > If > I su to root, it loads fine. I've checked the manual and that dosen't > give any clues. My permissions look ok from what I can tell. Permissions problems. Easiest way to fix. Pkg_delete Gimp. Login as root umask 027 (see note on that below) Install again Note: I use umask 027 because at home, since I am the only user, I have made myself member of all the major groups (bin, operator, etc....). This way I only give rights to the owner and groups. If you have many users on that system them and you want them to have acces then 022 may be more appropiate. I also don't recommend you set that umask permanently if you have many users on that system. I know it is a drag to have to umask before you install every package, but if this system is used by many people it would be a security risk to allow an umask of 022 (there may be files with passwords in them). --------------------- francisco@natserv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message