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  • Subject: [BL] resolved: slypheed as user and bind: permission denied error
  • Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:24:16 -0500 (CDT)

I wrote earlier tonight that:

I should mention that, with respect to Sylpheed, su'ing to the
unpriviledged user in the terminal, then issuing sylpheed does not suffice (though it has worked fine with both Opera and links). When I try to do that, I get the error "bind: Permission denied." What might be the source of that problem and how might it be remedied?

I resolved this problem tonight by googling "bind: permission denied"+sylpheed. The post I found concerned with this topic said: "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." So I changed permissions on /tmp to 777 (read and write by anyone, owned by root). Running sylpheed from the command line after doing this caused the program to start as expected. It seems user can start (and hopefully run!) Sylpheed as needed once those permissions on /tmp are changed (Sindi seems to have discovered before me the permissions problems on /tmp that unpriviledged users encounter under BL3, so she deserves credit here too).

James




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