Dear Gene,

Am Samstag, 9. M�rz 2019 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Saturday 09 March 2019 06:31:08 Stefan Krusche wrote:
> > Dear Gene,
> >
> > Am Samstag, 9. M�rz 2019 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Weird. You would have put them there as root, I think.
> >
> > > gene@coyote:~$ ls -lR |grep root -|wc -l
> > > 7927
> >
> > In my $HOME/.trinity directory:
> >
> > stekru[0]~/.trinity:$ ll -R | grep root
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 stekru stekru  6634 2019.03.04 20:22.31 root.desktop
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 stekru stekru  6634 2018.06.19 11:20.05 root.desktop
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 stekru stekru  6634 2018.09.13 14:30.04 root.desktop
> >
> > Meaning there are *no* files owned by root and I think that's the
> > way it should be.
> >
> > You can try (in $HOME and if your TDE config directory is
> > actually ".trinity" and not ".kde3" or something else; and if your
> > actual user name is "gene", of course):
>
> This is an old tde install. And it looks as if everyting in
> /opt/trinity is owned by root:root.

Hopefully you did not change that.  I was saying (or trying to say) to 
change back everything in $HOME/.trinity to gene:gene ...

> > sudo chown --recursive gene:gene .trinity/*
>
> Done.

How did that work?

Kind regards,
Stefan