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Date:      Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:43:42 -0800
From:      Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
To:        Joakim Fogelberg <joafog.lists@gmail.com>
Cc:        Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: skype permissions
Message-ID:  <49711BAE.5070505@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <e18c7cda0901161534k7aa8355aoe4621e0132091eb5@mail.gmail.com>
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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



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