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From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:
> 
> > On an impulse I decided to copy the library to /usr/lib.  xdm no longer
> > barfed on libXmu.so.6.0, but on another, so I copied the other libs from
> > /usr/X11R6/lib to /usr/lib.  Now everything works!!! 
> > 
> > I guess my question is why this would work if ldconfig -r reports that
> > /usr/X11R6/lib is one of the search directories in the first place?
> 
> Good question.  Permissions?
> 

The permissions and ownership of the files are identical in both locations
(/usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib)

cheers,
Carey Nairn