thanks and next problem: how to chown root ?
Suhaib Siddiqi
ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Fri Apr 20 11:44:00 GMT 2001
> Thanks to Reini, Harold and George for their help.
> Using IE instead of Netscape solved the problem with bunzip2.
>
> tar xf ... worked well, with one exception:
> tar xf xfree...devel.tar reported error "Cannot open: No such
> file or directory"
> when it tried to install usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver and ../xsm
> (are these files or links ?).
>
> Is this serious ?
>
NO
> Anyway, startwin.bat does not work.
> It opens briefly two MSDOS windows in the
> second of which I have hardly enough time to read:
> Couldnôt open RGB_DB ô/usr/.../rbgô
> ... Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root.
Something is wrong with your installation. Did you install everything
\cygwin\usr\X11R6?
Post your startxwin.bat file,a s well as your installation path.
>
> What shall I do ?
>
> Presently, my cygwin prompt assumes I am "administrator",
> and so is the name of the owner of all files.
> chown root /tmp/.X11-unix does not work ("invalid user")
It is a warning and you can ignore it. It has been discussed
several times on the mailing list.
>
> - Joachim
>
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