skype permissions

Rem P Roberti remegius at comcast.net
Fri Jan 16 15:43:41 PST 2009


Joakim Fogelberg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Beech Rintoul <beech at freebsd.org> 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


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