From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 5 15:51:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23053 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23009 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA08443; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:49:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:49:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Lanny Baron cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tkfont.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Can someone tell me why as a non root user on my system when trying to > run tkfont it always comes back with this: > > beef@beef:~$ tkfont > Error in startup script: couldn't create error file for command: no such > file or directory > while executing > "exec xset fp rehash" > (procedure "Rehash" line 8) > invoked from within > "Rehash" > (file "/usr/local/bin/tkfont" line 361) > > I can only use it if I am root :-( This looks like a permissions problem on your font directories to me OR that you haven't made /tmp world writable. Check those and see if that clears things up. Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." - Popular Science, 1891 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message