Re: FVWM: "exclusive open failed.."

From: Joey Hess <joey_at_kite.preferred.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:33:49 -0400 (EDT)

> > "exclusive open for tmp_name failed in m4_defs: Permission denied"
> >
> > If I run startx as root, I don't get the error, and fvwm comes up fine.
> >
> > Anyone know what could be causing this error?
>
> Check the permissions on your /tmp/ directory. Do you have write
> permission?

Thanks, that was the problem. I had a /tmp with all the proper
permissions, but the client I was running fvwm2 on was using a different
directory as /tmp, and I had negelcted to fix the permissions there.

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Received on Tue Jul 23 1996 - 16:39:31 BST