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Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied!
- From: "John Morrison" <john at morrison dot mine dot nu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:34:14 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied!
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- Reply-to: john at morrison dot mine dot nu
On Thu, May 19, 2005 12:01 am, Angelo Graziosi said:
>
> With this new release there is a
>
> Permission denied
>
> when a NOT-ADMIN user starts the X system (startxwin.bat)
> ====================
>
> He has not access to remove .X11-unix (see startxwin.bat) when /tmp has
> the "t" permission.
>
> Every user (or only Administrator?) should remove manually .X11-unix
> before the disconnetion from the machine.
>
> In this case there is not "permission denied" for the simple user.
>
> angelo.
Sorry, I don't use startxwin.bat, I can't help with that. 3.4-2 simply
2>/dev/null's the error, perhaps startxwin.bat should too?
J.
PS, *please* don't reply to everyone just the list :)