Once again the list comes through in record time. Thanks to Sean O'Connell
<sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU> who pointed out that my xterm wasn't setuid root. A quick
chmod 4755 did the trick!
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Don Newcomer Dickinson College
Asst. Director of Computer Services P.O. Box 1773
newcomer_at_dickinson.edu Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 245-1256
FAX: (717) 245-1690
> I'm not sure when it started but for some time now I've had problems running
> xterm on one of our DU 3.2G boxes. I use dxterm to connect to multiple machines
> from my AlphaStation 200 4/166 (DU 3.2d) and can use xterm from any of those
> windows except one. If I try from our DU 4.2g box I get this:
>
> xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied
>
> However, if I 'su' to root, it works. No, it's not an X permissions problem
> because I can run _any_ of the other X applications without incident. Any idea
> what's causing this?
Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 15:03:40 NZST