yahoo messenger on fedora error

m2azer · 10-01-2004, 12:55 AM

hi,

i installed ymessenger rpm as root ..now every time i run ymessenger as regular user it work fine untill i quit the program thats when i get " couldn't write to '/home/user/.ymessenger/preferences'".
can anybody help? it sounds like i need t change the owner from root to regular user how wold i do that? or what do u think is going on?

thnaks

UsualTuxpect · 10-01-2004, 01:15 AM

try as root--->

#chmod u+rwx -R /home/user/.ymessenger/

vectordrake · 10-01-2004, 03:40 PM

Or, delete /home/user/.ymessenger/preferences and run ymessenger again. It should create a new file with the right permissions.