At 00:05 26/02/00 +0000, you wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, frans toruan wrote about, swapon and x-auth:
>> i 've this messages from /var/log/messages :
>>
>> Feb 4 14:40:39 linuxf3 swapon: swapon: warning: /dev/hda7 has insecure
>> permissions 0660, 0600 suggested
>
>It means change the permissions of the swap partition.
>
>chmod 0600 /dev/hda7
>
thanks.
the error message quickly disappears.
( i guess this is the reason why i lost my swap partition on my linux box
at home, forcing me to re-install a few weeks ago. )
so, thanks again that i don't have to re-install for the same stupid reason
in the future.
>> and
>>
>> Feb 4 07:41:12 linuxf3 gdm[751]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Could not unlink
>> /var/gdm/:0.xauth file: No such file or directory
>>
>As to the second error,
>As i see it gdm is trying to remove a file which is non existant upon its
>closing, now i dont think you need to worry about that all to much.
>Really, you cant be such a newbie anymore as you have learnt to look for
>error messages. All you now need to do it distiguish between serious and
>not so serious error messages. ;-)
>
just out of curiousity, why should the display manager be everytime
interested in an authorization of only the ":0" x-term ( or, is it the
tty0 ? ) ? can't we stop this futile activity ?
sorry :-)
well, thanks again, and please don't get mad at me.
regards,
frans t.
>--
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>Happy New Year
is it not Chinese New Year already ?
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