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Old 20th January 2009
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Default skype only runs as root

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FreeBSd 7

Can someone please help me run skype as a normal user
it only seems to run from root and i dont want do that

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Which version of skype did you install?

What error do you get when you run skype as a normal user?

Which version of FreeBSD are you running?

Make sure you have linprocfs mounted, IIRC skype needs this.

Which version of linux_base do you have installed?

What is sysctl compat.linux.osrelease set to? This matters for some version of skype.
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hi

All i know is i added skype from ports

skype-2.0.0.72,1



i installed from ports
linux_basefc4 and linux-gtk2


skype
/usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied
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Check the permissions of /usr/local/bin/skype and /usr/local/share/skype/skype

% ls -l /usr/local/bin/skype /usr/local/share/skype/skype

Both files should be executable, if they are not already executable:

# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/skype /usr/local/share/skype/skype
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when i did the permission chek it was all set to root
when i changed the permissions as root

silly-wabbit# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/skype /usr/local/share/skype/skype

(what is a? i thougt ist was supose to be r+x?)

exit

$skype

$ skype
/usr/local/bin/skype: /usr/local/share/skype/skype: Permission denied


silly-wabbit# ls -l /usr/local/bin/skype /usr/local/share/skype/skype
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78 Jan 21 15:01 /usr/local/bin/skype
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20322884 Jan 21 15:01 /usr/local/share/skype/skype
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I had the same issue with Skype. It installs the directory /usr/local/share/skype with the wrong permissions. To fix it just run:
# chmod 755 /usr/local/share/skype
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The 'a' means 'all', so instead of chmod ugo+x, one can say chmod a+x.
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Thank you

i dont know what i was thinking ad how i ever forgot that a = all
r = read w =write x = execute a = all

Anyways thank you and thank the rest of you for helping me.
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