On Friday 08 March 2019 21:27:11 William Morder wrote: [...] > You might want to look into that permissions problem. Are you > generally able to run programs as root? Generally, what need root, works as root, so I don't THINK theres an ownership problem. > Somebody else may want to jump > in here, as I've never had issues about changing my KDE3 or TDE menus. > > Is your system is set up for multiple users? That would be a reason to > restrict permissions on such items. > > Bill > No, not real users although I do run some things as their own user just for sandboxing. Interestingly looooooong list of root owned stuff, all dated Juner 17 2016, which is the date I installed wheezy IIRC. > gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l 7927 And while I know it only takes 1 to screw it up, 7927 files here in my /home/gene directory does sound excessive. Thanks Bill Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
