Re: Application Problems (Permissions?)

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

Donald Tyler wrote:

> When I first installed RedHat, I didn’t choose to install Mozilla. 
> Later, while I was logged in under my personal account (Not root) I 
> installed Mozilla, which obviously asked me for root password.
>
> It seemed to install fine. However, I am unable to run Mozilla under 
> my personal account. It will only allow me to run it when I am root.
You might have a file in your home directory, or something else could be 
wrong. Try "strace mozilla>/tmp/strace" until you get the error, and 
then "grep open /tmp/strace| tail -5" to find the last five files that 
Mozilla tried to open. The problem is likely to be the permissions on 
one of these files. Failing that, start readint at the bottom of the file.

> I did a chmod –R 755 on the Mozilla directory but it didn’t help.
You may want to reinstall from a clean RPM or tar, just to get back to 
standard permissions. I would on any systems that wasn't my personal 
desktop--I might not bother there.

Alan