> 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? -- "Hey, I think I finally got the hang of i-"