"David C. Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip: wrong /tmp permissions]
> That was it--my clue was when X didn't start either. Now I need to try to > track down whatever it was I did that changed its perms. I posted my > question too soon--sorry, everyone, for the wasted bandwidth. It happened to me once when I tarred up ".", then untarred it in /tmp to check it went right. /tmp got the permissions of the original "." directory. (Moral: don't "tar .", instead "tar .* *" in zsh, and/or be careful untarring as root.) -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux and Linux-like systems such as UNIX(R) and FreeBSD..." - Yggdrasil Computing, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>