From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 02:24:33 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 5F9E6106566B; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joafog.lists@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297778FC17; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joafog.lists@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so2078943wfg.7 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:24:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=IgLD295cPjfMIhJPrysHOXLjlZ8t6tAhTR/5fU7LeEk=; b=mhAVVG6wjEEvMjIlRW+IJXj3WEiNptvuY59syugFSs4uv9bU+/6OUYJcGyebdl020b pHbwwTySve86O5OS8Fhln8j3CTdsYdQ2fNjrMuJ8JNchCkbov4jxo7AdeVFF2oynSaG1 K2/8KKT+9mhN7q4egkuDN7Tz6+QwWee+9dDEg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fSviw8aw9YUJ0mCHM8zuskNPAvKe3VhUh8NhkEP825/PLKCr4kS7GzfOTMMWveaJ8h iT0fC5cg2dLjFytdAVRWFNGOZcZXLUenWbY2LY/sysEeeYQapWdOvWUvQuE1jTweVsNz sJmmEuWpLKAh9Xx7cAeagNcZeqylyT9G72Xd4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.230.9 with SMTP id c9mr1288014wfh.254.1232159072759; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:24:32 -0800 (PST) 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> <49711BAE.5070505@comcast.net> <49712586.2010806@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:24:32 +0100 Message-ID: From: Joakim Fogelberg To: Rem P Roberti Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 02:24:33 -0000 On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > 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 > > 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