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RE: _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to ro ot


Please use the latest binaries.  Colors had been fixed.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George J. Wakileh [mailto:george.wakileh@vol.at]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:33 PM
> To: 'Suhaib Siddiqi'
> Subject: RE: _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should 
> be set to
> ro ot
> 
> 
> Hi Suhaib,
> 
> Thanks for your answers.  I have libX11.dll of 2001/03/21.  
> But, I am sure 
> there is something mixed.  First, you had Progs.tar.gz which 
> was 6.xx MB. 
>  Some  days ago, that was replaced by XClients.tar.gz which 
> is 4.xx MB 
> only.
> 
> >_XSERVTransmkdir:
> that means your lines are getting mixed _XSERVTransxxxx 
> should be on a 
> separate line, if I am not mistaken....  is your sever 
> starting at all?
> *** No, I have the message as
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> 
> >Line 88 of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy invalid
> Well, are you on a text (DOS) mounted cygwin mount point? do 
> a mount at 
> bash if all the disks are mounted as "text" then that is your 
> problem.  We 
> need binary (binmode) mount points.
> 
> *** I am in binmode.
> Device              Directory           Type         Flags
> D:\bin              /usr/bin            system       binmode
> D:\lib              /usr/lib            system       binmode
> D:                  /                   system       binmode
> 
> >when I start xterm,  \[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\]\u@\h 
> \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]>$ appears as the  prompt.
> Are you starting xterm with xterm -e /usr/bin/bash, which 
> would allow you 
> to use bash shell in xterm?
> *** Thanks.  That does it.
> 
> Anyway, thanks very much.  The server starts and things look 
> fine.  The 
> colours need some tuning.  I will look into that.
> 
> George
> George
> 


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