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From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xfce & kde on gentoo
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:56:20
Message-Id: 20010510170428.1abdfe64.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] xfce & kde on gentoo by Daniel Robbins
1 On Thu, 10 May 2001 10:02:47 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:07:24PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 >
5 > > > 3) now I can run xfce and the icons are clickable, sylpheed and
6 > konqueror
7 > > > will come up as normal user under xfce, but there's still some pesky
8 > > > permission missing, because neither can reach the network (dns doesn't
9 > > > work). What permission is wrong that prevents this?
10 >
11 > > things still get stranger. I have no idea, it works as root but not as a
12 > > normal user?
13 >
14 > Collins is having trouble because he extracted the sys tarball without the
15 > "p"
16 > option, causing everything to be owned by root and all directory permissions
17 > to
18 > be affected by the current umask. The correct way to extract the sys/build
19 > tarballs
20 > is:
21 >
22 > # tar xjpvf file.tar.bz2
23 >
24 > Notice the "p" -- it's important.
25 >
26
27 Not quite - I used the alternative command listed in the install instructions
28 which is advertised as being the equivalent of the 'p' option which is not
29 available on my original system. If this doesn't work, you need to revise the
30 install instructions.
31
32
33 --
34 Collins Richey
35 Denver Area
36 Sybil test system (reiserfs)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] xfce & kde on gentoo Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>