Re: Problems using startxwin.bat

["Phil Betts" <Phil dot Betts at ascribe dot com>]

PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote on Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:30 PM::

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> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@XXXXXX.XXX] En nombre de Cary Jamison
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Ditto

> Enviado el: miércoles, 06 de febrero de 2008 18:19
> Para: cygwin-xfree@XXXXXX.XXX
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Ditto

You appear to be using Outlook or Outlook Express, so you should 
investigate using Outlook-Quotefix if you use Outlook:
 http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
or OE-Quotefix if you use Outlook Express:
 http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

> Asunto: Re: Problems using startxwin.bat
> 
> 
> There have been similar posts in the past about how to set up for
> multiple users.  Since I don't have that setup, I can only offer a
> couple vague suggestions, including that you search again for those
> posts. 
> 
> You seem to be on the right track that the problem is access to these
> files and directories in /tmp.  If the files are there owned by you,
> another user can't come along and overwrite them.  I believe some of
> the suggestions in the past included things like making sure this
> stuff gets cleaned up in /tmp and/or giving each user their own /tmp
> ($TMP or $TEMP). 
> 
> 
> Good ideas.
> 
> Regards

Just to clarify, the suggested workaround was actually to make /tmp
a user-specific mount - i.e. each X user would need to do something
like:

mount -u -b "$USERPROFILE/Local Settings/Temp" /tmp



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