Hello, Everyone :) I started to have this problem with Red Hat 9 (I have since returned to Red Hat 8, as I was having to many New problems with 9), so I'll describe how it started there first. After a very recent re-install of Red Hat 9, I lost the ability to run any archving/compression utilities as a regular user, and I also lost the ability to run "configure" and "make" on source code, all of which I was able to do as a regular user up until a few days ago. I assumed that doing a full reinstall of Red Hat 9 would fix the problem. I was mistaken :( I further assumed that if I reinstalled Red Hat 8, to the point where I completely deleted all my previous user settings, that I would be back to where I could compile sourcecode as a regular user (up to the point of "make install"). I was rather suprised to discover that I still can't run, lets say, bunzip2, tar, configure, or make. I also found out that I can make my own tarballs, and bzip2 them, and then extract them just fine. Before I decided to propose this question to you, I checked to see what the permissions were on the sourcecode I was trying to compile. As a regular user, I was the owner and the group, and I had sufficent read, write and execute priveledges on all the files I tried to compile. I can compile and install just fine as root, but the thing that confuses me is that the problem didn't used to exist even on Red Hat 9, and now it continues after a complete Reinstall of Red Hat 8! Not only that, but there was no possibility of any of my old configuration files causing any confusion. Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
