From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 00:25:40 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 A4DC71065673 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:25:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF578FC21 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:25:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.44]) by QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4C6Y1b0070x6nqcA9QRhFW; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:25:41 +0000 Received: from bsd.remdog.net ([76.102.24.75]) by OMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 4QRf1b0081dCpWs8YQRg7w; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:25:40 +0000 Message-ID: <49712586.2010806@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:25:42 -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> <49711BAE.5070505@comcast.net> 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: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:25:40 -0000 Joakim Fogelberg wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > > 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