Bruce Hyatt wrote:
--- 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
The only file that I have n / is .autofsck the directories are set to
40755 except for /tmp which is set to 40777
Jim
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Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem
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- Gerard Straub, television producer and author (stolen from Frank
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