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From: dpaulso@k30b.nswc.navy.mil (ef80)
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Subject: Re: alert: File system error
Keywords: The Opaque System
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.161355.3372@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 29 Mar 91 16:13:55 GMT
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In article <23922@well.sf.ca.us> esteban@well.sf.ca.us (S. F. Ruhauf) writes:
>hey
>	WriteNow starts up with a File System Error: no permission.
>	Root still has no problems.
>	Only the normal (haha) user ends with an alert box.
>
>	I checked all the files WriteNow could need (r/w/x)
>	but can't figure out, which I changed accidently.
>
>	gurus, all other apps run well.

check that /private/tmp (or whatever your /tmp symbolic link points
to) is writable by "others".

/dave

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