Nicely descibed in the man page for chmod: Chmod argument "mode" is accepting symbolic or octal numbers, those bits you want enabled is set to 1 the others are 0. By using numbers you are able to set all the bits at once, just or together all the bits you want enabled, and forget the others. owner read = 0400 owner write = 0200 0400 | 0200 = 0600 Cincerely, Sigmund Mark Ness wrote: > Sorry I forgot to add Gnome to the recips > Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >> I have just restructured my system (repartitioned the main disk to >> separate /home from /) and I am now getting this error when I try to >> log in as a non-root user: >> >> Your session only hasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged >> out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem >> or you may be out of disk space. Try logging in with one of the >> failsafe sessoions to see if you can fix this problem. >> >> I can log in via ssh or as root, but I don't know what to fix. Since >> I can log in via ssh, I am assuming that I have enough disk space >> (there's plenty everywhere), so I'm thinking a config problem, but >> what? >> >> Thanks. >> > This has happened to me more than once (Fedora Core) but I can't remember > the cause for sure. It may have been a UID problem or it may have b een a > permissions problem on ~/.dmrc. .dmrc should be -rw------- I tend to forget > numbers when I don't use them for a while. > Would that be chmod 600 /home/username/.dmrc? > Just a guess. Like I said, it's happened to me but it's been a while and > I don't > recall for sure. > > Also could be permissions on /tmp. It is owned by root butt should also be > writable by you for desktop. This could give you then disk space problem > since > (or if) you are unable to write to it. I also forget this one but it > either needs SUID > or "sticky" bit? Should be drwxrwxrwt > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
