Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > When you get problems with .Xauthority files, you should delete them and > then do xauth-b to rebuild them. I would need to do this at every login :( until I find out what is causing the problem. What I will do is put something in my .bash_profile to re

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: > > > > As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue > > in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but > > chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much > > The problem is

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-May-99 John Galt wrote: > > As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue > in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but > chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much The problem is that something would change the ownership back t

Re: problem with .Xauthority files

1999-05-10 Thread John Galt
As root, chown 'em or chmod 666 'em. Xauthority files are standard issue in X. I have no idea why the perms and/or ownership got fouled up, but chown/chmod is a quick fix. YMMV but not by much On Sun, 9 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I installed KDE 1.1.1 on my Slink system and found I had to in