[SunRescue] Dumb question of the week

[steve price]

Try  chmod 01777 /tmp/.X11-unix

--- Stefan Hames <rsh5 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> I'm running Solaris 7 on my SS5/170 as a regular
> user, not root.  I
> tried to run ArcView on the same machine and got an
> error message
> instead:
> 
> redtail% arcview
> [1] 3348
> redtail% Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by
> server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> ------------------- TRACEBACK
> -------------------------
> Module "X    " Message   2: file "err.c     " line
> 453
> Module "Dsply" Message   0: file "./xdsply.c" line
> 102
> Module "Err  " Message  -1: file "err.c     " line
> 1489
>
-------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ERROR           Cannot open display ":0.0"
> while           Initializing windowing environment
> EXITING         cannot recover from error
> 
> ------
> 
> I think it's some kind of permissions thing,  since
> it fires up fine if
> I issue the command as root.  I checked and
> .xauthority has thye correct
> permissionsAny clues for the clueless?
> 
> 
> --
>
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> Stefan Hames
> Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
> E221 Corson Hall
> Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-2701
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> 
>
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> 
> 
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