On Friday 08 March 2019 18:46:47 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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 >> [quoting:] >> No, each user should be able to edit his own menu; if he can't, there's a >> permission problem. >> Dan Youngquist I rather thought so, but I don't deal with multiple users; except on rare occasions, that is, when I use other people's computers, or public computers. > > 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 We have yet to resolve the issue, although that does sound like a long list. Don't thank me too soon. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
