I don't think you're doing anything bad, but I've never had the same problem--my own permissions on .gnome are the same as what you changed them to, and I think they've been that way since the directory was created.
On 2/8/02 2:04 PM, "Mark Locatelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > This is my first message to this group. I've been using fink for > about 6 months now (my first version of fink was 0.2.5) and have used > it to install Xfreee86 on both my home and work machines. I've been > involved in porting a software package written here at NIST (OOF, see > http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/oof/) from Unix/Linux to Mac OS X. (Mostly > my job consisted of finding fink and convincing the code's writer > that everything needed to compile OOF was now ported and easily > obtainable for OS X.) > > Now, for my first silly question. I was playing nethack at home and > kept getting an error like: > > GNOME-error: can't open per-users /Users/username/.gnome/accels... > > So, I used "sudo nethack" which worked fine (if you like playing as 'root'). > > Next, I ran a "ls -al" and saw that I was the owner of .gnome/ but > the permissions on it were "drw-------", so I "chmod 777 .gnome". > > Now nethack runs fine. > > My questions are: Am I doing a bad thing by opening up the .gnome > directory? (I would think that write permission would be more > dangerous than execute permission.) And if not, why is the directory > created with such restricted permissions? > > Thanks, > Mark > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, LDX Collaboration MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
