On Wednesday 14 January 2004 20:35, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
I can image this has been discussed before, but I am new to the list and can't seem to find a solution. When I click on my SuSE Watcher in the system tray while logged in as myself and 'Check for updates', I get an error that it cannot write to my youservers file. But I can perform the updates with no problem. Everything works when logged in as root. I find /etc/youservers and /var/lib/YaST2/you/youservers, and have set both with 777 permissions, but no luck. I authenticate against an LDAP directory, but I don't know if that matters with the 777 permissions.
Anybody know what I'm doing wrong.
-- Robert
The watcher runs as non-root, and writes files to a different area: /var/tmp/you-[username]/ In here there should be a youservers file, and it should be owned by [username] and have "rw" permissions. i.e. [username]@[hostname]:/var/tmp/you-[username]> ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 [username] users 206 2004-01-11 03:01 cookies drwxr-xr-x 4 [username] users 96 2003-11-29 18:20 mnt -rw-r--r-- 1 [username] users 389 2004-01-11 03:00 youservers [username]@[hostname]:/var/tmpyou-[username]> If you don't have something similar, then that's why you can't write to it. -- stephen/dot/boddy/at/btinternet/dot/com