Viewer in 4.7.0-pre4

SZABÓ Gergely szg at subogero.com
Mon Nov 16 19:22:10 UTC 2009


Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Slava Zanko:
>
>   
>> Hmm... looks like no have permissions for change your ~/.mc/history file.
>>     
>
> And you are right with this. 'root root 0600' for history.
>
>   
>> Do you use Ubuntu? Or is you run mc as 'sudo mc' instread of 'sudo su -l
>> - -c mc'?
>>     
>
> I'm using Gentoo which offers only the 4.7.0* at the moment for mc. And
> yes, sometimes i use 'sudo mc' to edit e.g. something in /etc.
>
>   
>> try to change owner of your 'history' file and try again.
>>     
>
> I have deleted history and also filepos which had 'root root 0644'. As
> far i can see at the moment all seems to work well now.
>
> And even 'sudo mc' doesn't change the ownership of history or filepos. :)
>
>   
>> P.S. 4.7.0-pre4 don't change owner of ~/.mc files. But if owner was
>> changed before this release, then this situation may be raised. In
>> opposite, if ~/.mc/* files will have proper owner, then 4.7.0-pre4 will
>> not change owner of these files.
>>     
>
> It's likely that i have had all previous versions of 4.7.0* on my
> machine. One of them may have caused the behavior.
>
> Hartmut, happy again
>
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Hello,

it was the same problem for me. ~/.mc/history was in the hands of root:root.
Find File dialog fixes as well.
Thanks :-)

G



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