On Sunday 16 October 2005 06:56 am, Colin Sharpe wrote:
> --- Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 October 2005 12:17 pm, Colin Sharpe
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I am using OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 on my Sun
> > Ultrasparc 1 running Solaris 9 OS.
> > > I installed the program in /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.4 as
> > > root. The program runs perfectly as root, and I am able
> > to open existing .doc files,create new files, and save
> > > > > them. I can also print out documents.
> > > I then did workstation installs for myself and my
> > > wife, logged in as myself and my wife
> > respectively, in /export/home/colin and /export/home/kim. After
> > logging out and in again, Office appeared under
> > applications on the Gnome desktops of each user. I can start
> > > OpenOffice writer by clicking on the item from
> > both user desktops.
> > > When I tried to open an existing document, I
> > received an error message:
> > > "Error loading document file:///export/home/colin/sharperes.doc.
> > > Error creating object. The file could not be created."
> > > I am the owner of the document, and permissions
> > are -rwxr-xr-x.
> > > I then tried to write a new document, I tried to
> > "Save as", entered a name for the file, and received an
> > > error message: "Error saving the document Untitled1:
> > > Write Error. The file could not be written"
> > > The attempt was made to write the file to
> > > /export/home/colin, which I own,.and has permissions
> > > drwxr-xr-x.
> > > What on earth is going wrong, or how have I messed
> > up the installation?
> > > I hope I have given enough information to help
> > someone solve this for me.
> > >
> > > Colin Sharpe.
> >
> > Who is the owner of /export/home/colin/ ? If it
> > is root as I suspect,
> > then you, as a user, do not have writing privileges
> > to this folder. It
> > seem to be a matter of setting the proper
> > permissions to this folder.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Thanks, Dan but...
>
> As I said in my post, I (colin) am the owner of
> /export/home/colin. I really would have problems
> doing anything on my computer if I couldn't write to
> my home directory. I am not a user who does anything
> as root unless it is absolutely necessary. I was
> taught this when I first learned UNIX admin some 15
> years ago..
>
> Here is what comes out when I do a directory listing:
>
> garcia% ls -l /export/home
> total 24
> drwxr-xr-x 50 colin other 3072 Oct 16 07:18
> colin
> drwxr-xr-x 18 kim other 1024 Oct 14 17:16
> kim
> drwx------ 7 root root 8192 Apr 26 20:01
> lost+found
> garcia%
>
> The machine name "garcia" is from my habit of naming
> Sun machines after dead rock stars, my other home Sun
> is "elvis". As you probably know, when I enter the
> command "ping elvis", the system responds: "elvis is
> alive". I think this is cute.
>
> I am still at a total loss as to what to look for
> next.
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Colin.
Then is Solaris different from Linux in this regard? You list you
home directories as being in /export/home/ while my home directories
are in /home/.
There two more thing that I wonder about. What are the permissions
for the directory /export/ when you issue this command:
ls -l / ? Secondly, what directories are the two OpenOffice.org1.1.4
workstation directories in?
Dan
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