> Here's the weird thing. It works from root X on another partition. But I
> created a test user and tried xmessage from there and got the same
> error. That points to the partition? To fstab? What else? Fstab looks
> ok, same settings on my new /hda3 as I had on /hda8...

I went looking for more info in man but got a can't open temp file. that
was the tip off, it was a permision problem but not on /home but /tmp. I
gave tmp rwx for all and xmessage works!!

BTW, what is the default for /tmp? rwx owner/group/others?

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