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skippy

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 19

Email programs

I can run Sylpheed or Claws-Mail as root, but not as user. How and what do I change (permissions or groups) to access as user.  Thanks in advance.  Searched wiki and forum but failed to find any usable answer.

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: Email programs

There's been a /tmp folder permission issue happening lately.  Check if your /tmp folder's permissions look like this: drwxrwxrwt

[marc@/] ls -la / | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt  5 root root  296 2008-02-06 21:01 tmp
[marc@/]

If the permissions differ, run this:

sudo chmod 1777 /tmp

If the permissions were OK, forget this post, the problem is elsewhere

skippy

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Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 19

Re: Email programs

Thanks.  I couldn't use the chmod thing, I got some power with responsibility, privacy lecture and a password check that neither root nor user would work.  Logged in as root and used emelFM to change the permissions and guessed at the "t" thing.  Sylpheed ran fine after logging back in as user.

skippy

Last edited by skippy (2008-02-07 23:13:08)