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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:39:19 -0400
From: Bob Collins <bob@pineypl.com>
To: David Leimbach <leimbacd@bellsouth.net>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DCOPserver and kde 2
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:43:10PM -0500, David Leimbach wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2001 15:13, Bob Collins wrote:
> > This question has been asked before and received no answer of
> > significant help, so I shall pose it again in a different way.
> >
> 
> I just went through some issues with DCOP so I will try to help.  :)
 
I am glad you survived it too! You did help, see below.
 
> > I do not want to reinstall the system, as we know that is only a
> > reasonable solution for one well-known OS! ;)
> Don't then :)

I did not. ;) I use a better OS!

> Try checking the existence of the following:
> /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel  1024 Jul 29 09:06 .ICE-unix
> drwx------   3 dave  wheel   512 Jul 29 12:28 kde-dave
> drwx------   2 dave  wheel  1536 Jul 29 15:31 ksocket-dave
> drwx------   2 dave  wheel   512 Jul 29 09:06 mcop-dave
> 
> The dave files are for the users named dave :).
> Note the sticky bit on the .ICE-unix directory... this is pretty important :).
> The directory is used to store DCOP socket connections from users.
> 
I found I had the directories, however the sticky bit was NOT set.
Once set, I was very eager to try it out, and it fired right up. My
KDE is working again. Thank you very much.
 
-Bob


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