If I remember correctly, your WWW directory and all subdirectories and files should be chmod 755 (rwxr-xr-x), I've changed ownership of the /var/www directory from root.root to joeblow.joeblow (or whatever your user name is). So let's see, the commands would be, as root: chmod -R 755 /var/www chown joeblow.joeblow /var/www List members...please correct me if I'm wrong. Sam MacDonald wrote: > Story of my life with Linux. > > I changed the permissions on the "www" directory so I could us my > account (not root) to create web pages. I checked the name of the > directory 3 times it was "www" in the /var directory > > Now I get a (remember I'm trouble shooting while I'm writing this message) > > Text based error message blue background, gray foreground like a curses > program. > > "Server Authorization directory (Daemon/ServAuthdir) is set to /var/gdm > but is not owned by user gdm and group gdm. Please correct the ownership > of gdm configuration /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and restart gdm" > > (I'm out of beer so now I'm really upset at this point, lucky I have > some margarita in the fridge.) > > I look up "gdm", it's the "gnome display manager" imagine that! Folks > I'm _not_ running gnome, I'm running KDE. > > So I said to my self "what is causing all this to be a pain?" The > answer is "graphical login" that's right, gnome starts to get a > graphical login going. http://www.5z.com/jirka/gdm.html says so. > > My question... > > Does Linux (the system) turn gnome off when it starts KDE, for us KDE > users? > I think the answer is "no" because it needs it after a logout to > prompt for login. > So KDE users get the honor of using both KDE and gnome at the same > time? > > <sidebar> > So because I made the mistake, missing the "last" dialog box that says > something like "do you want to use a graphical login? with the default > of "use a graphical login". I've been cursed with a graphical login. > > If you remember our brave (ignorant) Linux user is also trying to get > rid of the graphical login. See the thread "Lost". In the middle I put > something about changing from graphical to terminal login. > > So I change the "inittab" file so it uses a "3" for multiuser login > instead of a "5" for X11 and restart the machine. > (Thanks to all for the information) > > Now this does not solve the original problem, it did stop the message > coming up every 2 -5 minutes. Even without X windows running the message > would display. Did I say X windows would start KDE without any > problem? Well it does, but the message would pop up as above until I > change "inittab". > OH did I say X windows is running about 20% faster now? OH I didn't, > well it is running about 20% faster then when I had the graphical > login. Best guess; 2 windows managers were running all the time. > > Did I say OO Writer starts then it did before the change to a terminal > login. Well it starts in 1 minute 25 seconds instead of 1 minute 55 > seconds. Yes, I timed it when I first installed it. > </sidebar> > > Back to the original problem... > > So I set the permissions using the file manager but now the error is (it > was before changeling to terminal login) > "Server Authorization directory (Daemon/ServAuthdir) is set to /var/gdm > but has the wrong permissions, it should have permissions of 0750. > Please correct the permissions or the gdm configuration > /etc/X11/gem/gdm.conf and restart gdm" > > For the life of me I can't remember what the "human" values of 0750 > are. And I can't remember the command to set permissions. The > permissions should be corrected just in case I want to torcher myself > with a graphical login in some far off time. > > Sam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Todd Young 7079 Dawn Ave. E. Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list