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On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 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.

Lynx also needs to write to /tmp.  Karolis discovered this, I think using 
strace.  I could not have managed without his help.

> 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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