--- Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In a Unix (and Linux) pathname any sequence of one or more /
> characters
> collapses into a single /.
>
> Thus /// is exactly the same as / so your chmod affects only
> files in
> the root directory (and not those beneath it). Which is why I
> thought /tmp might the cause of the problem.
In that case, it seems odd to me that executing "chmod 777 ///"
didn't allow me to startx.
Bruce
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