On Friday 08 March 2019 21:27:11 William Morder wrote:
[...]
> You might want to look into that permissions problem. Are you
> generally able to run programs as root? 

Generally, what need root, works as root, so I don't THINK theres an 
ownership problem.

> Somebody else may want to jump 
> in here, as I've never had issues about changing my KDE3 or TDE menus.
>
> Is your system is set up for multiple users? That would be a reason to
> restrict permissions on such items.
>
> Bill
>
No, not real users although I do run some things as their own user just 
for sandboxing.

Interestingly looooooong list of root owned stuff, all dated Juner 17 
2016, which is the date I installed wheezy IIRC.
>
gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l
7927

And while I know it only takes 1 to screw it up, 7927 files here in 
my /home/gene directory does sound excessive.

Thanks Bill

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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