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List:       sylpheed
Subject:    [sylpheed:17819] Re: Greetings (and bind problem)
From:       JUS <jus () ohmi ! org>
Date:       2002-12-31 19:52:36
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The tmp directory problem was right on the money.

Adjusting the permissions on tmp allowed the install script to work as the user

Of course this begs the question, why were users denied access to tmp in the first place? Still reading....

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:39:27 +0100
Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:44:00 -0500 jus <jus@ohmi.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > bind: permission denied
> 
> "bind" is also a C function.
> 
> wild guess: Your user doesn't have write access to his tmp dir and
> sylpheed can't create the unix socket it uses to get commands from
> cmdline.
> 
> "your tmp dir" is found by glib using environment variables $TMPDIR or
> $TMP or $TEMP, in that order, and /tmp by default.
> 
> actually that's not a wild guess, there isn't any other perror("bind") in
> the source :)
> 
> HTH,
> -- 
> Colin
> http://www.colino.net/
> 


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