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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1.is.net!news From: adam mitchell <adamm@visual.is.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x Subject: i broke xman Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:44:25 +0000 Organization: The Internet Connection Lines: 10 Message-ID: <312443E9.167EB0E7@visual.is.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: visual.is.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13889 comp.windows.x:85661 xman used to work fine until i screwed something up and now i have to run xman as root to make it work. i'm guessing that xman needs to write the formatted output to some directory i've locked myself out of. does anyone know where i should start looking? can't i make xman execute as root no matter who runs it? i'm not concerned with security on this system. thanks! AM