On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:55 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > > > > In that case, it seems odd to me that executing "chmod 777 ///" > > didn't allow me to startx. > > > > > > Bruce > > Run the following command: > > Find / -perm 666 > > in order to find all files that have permissions set to 666. At least > you'll know that only those were potentially changed by you (some may > have been already set at that). Assuming it wasn't a recursive 'chmod', it can only have affected files in /. poc
