Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:24:32 +0100 From: Joakim Fogelberg <joafog.lists@gmail.com> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype permissions Message-ID: <e18c7cda0901161824k2d6df066wc0f089dccdac1f03@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49712586.2010806@comcast.net> References: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> <200901161234.41120.beech@freebsd.org> <497103F6.3090701@comcast.net> <200901161309.45606.beech@freebsd.org> <e18c7cda0901161534k7aa8355aoe4621e0132091eb5@mail.gmail.com> <49711BAE.5070505@comcast.net> <e18c7cda0901161615yc29f5c4j6d5888b37ff953bb@mail.gmail.com> <49712586.2010806@comcast.net>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > Joakim Fogelberg wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Joakim Fogelberg wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> What are the premissions of /usr/local/share/skype? Try doing chmod 755 >>>>> /usr/local/share/skype and start with: >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> This did the trick for me. I just installed skype and: >>>> >>>> will-try# ls -l /usr/local/share/ | grep skype >>>> drwx------ 6 root wheel 512 Jan 17 00:13 skype >>>> >>>> After changing the permissions I am able to start skype from the Gnome >>>> menu. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the shot, Joakim, but that didn't work either. When calling >>> Skype >>> from user's command prompt still get the same result. BTW, I'm using >>> Xfce >>> as my desktop. >>> >>> Rem >>> >>> >> >> Just for the record... I'm also able to start Skype from the command >> prompt. >> >> I'm not sure if I really understand makefiles, but it seems to me that >> /usr/local/share/skype are created with the following directive in >> /usr/ports/net/skype/Makefile: >> @cd ${WRKSRC}/&&${COPYTREE_SHARE} "avatars icons sounds lang" >> ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ >> >> Maybe the directory should be created first? I.e. change it to the >> following: >> @${INSTALL} -d ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR} >> @cd ${WRKSRC}/&&${COPYTREE_SHARE} "avatars icons sounds lang" >> ${PREFIX}/${SKYPEDIR}/ >> >> >> > > Joakim... > > Which version of freebsd are you using? With all of the chmods that I've > been doing > things began to get a little bunged up. Couldn't even bring Skype up as > root. So I > deinstalled Skype via pkg-cutleaves and reinstalled. In the process I had > to also do a > deinstall/reinstall of linux_base-fc6. So now I'm back to the original > setup. I assume > that you followed the directives of UPDATING 20080318 in order for you to > get Skype > to work. > > Rem > > 7.1-RELEASE-p2 will-try [~] > sysctl compat.linux.osrelease compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16 linux_base-f8-8_10 linproc mounted OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE=f8 in /etc/make.conf I didn't follow the directives in UPDATING, as I just recently reinstalled all ports. Since I had to recompile many of them due to gnome-2.24 anyway, I took the opportunity get a fresh installation. However, looking at the entry in UPDATING I see that I have followed the directives. -- Joakim Fogelberg
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