From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 23:43:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BACD106566B for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:43:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F1C8FC08 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:43:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.52]) by QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4C1h1b00517UAYkA8Pji37; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:43:42 +0000 Received: from bsd.remdog.net ([76.102.24.75]) by OMTA13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4Pjg1b0021dCpWs8ZPjgES; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:43:40 +0000 Message-ID: <49711BAE.5070505@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:43:42 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joakim Fogelberg References: <4970F8CE.4090307@comcast.net> <200901161234.41120.beech@freebsd.org> <497103F6.3090701@comcast.net> <200901161309.45606.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Beech Rintoul , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:43:41 -0000 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul 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