In sun-managers, Wed Sep 4, 1991 I wrote:
>
> Some of my machines (not all of them!) exhibit the following
> behaviour. When starting suntools, the message:
>
> open: permission denied
>
> appears briefly on the screen, then suntools starts normally
> as if nothing had happened.
I received several suggestions on the cause of the problem. All of
those could have been accurate, so, I will list them all for you:
- Is the file /usr/tmp/vm_fonts-n0 missing when it starts ?
- Try using the trace command on suntools as it starts up
- Check out /var/tmp to make sure it is still world writeable.
- Check the permissions in /etc/utmp. Suntools insists on writing to
this file when it comes up, and so it must have world write (666)
permission.
- Turn off the sticky bit on /usr/tmp.
- It might be the permissions on /dev/win0 - are you running with
window security enabled?
- Try running trace on sunview when you start it up - you can grep for
open calls and see what it is failing to open.
Turns out that the tip on "vm_fonts-n0" was a good indication, because
it simply wasn't there! But that file does not go into /var/tmp, but
into /usr/tmp, which, I discovered, had been unlinked by an impolite
script. So I found /usr/tmp directory (and no a link -> /var/tmp), with
a "vm_fonts-n0" and no write permission by "world". I relinked /usr/tmp
to /var/tmp and everything started working normally again.
Many thanks to:
battan@sequent.com (Jim Battan)
datri@concave.convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
dupuy@hudson.cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
jdschn@nicsn1.monsanto.com (John D Schneider)
johnb@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins)
jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark)
kwthomas@nsslsun.gcn.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
miker@sbcoc.com (Mike Raffety)
mikulska@ece.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska)
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