gedit / permissions problems

[James Dugger]

Lisa,

Thanks for the help.  Everything seems to be back to normal.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Hi James:
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, James Dugger <james.dugger at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry, fat fingers I sent before I finished the last bits of command
>> configuration settings that I did  below.
>>
>> Permission settings for Apache:
>>
>> # chmod -R 755 sites
>>>
>> # cd/ home
>>> # chmod 711 user_name
>>>
>>
>> SELinux setting changes:
>>
>> # /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1
>>> # chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t sites
>>>
>>
>> and also:
>>
>> # /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_enable_cgi 1
>>>
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks
>>
>> --
>> James
>>
>>
> The root . directories (and the rest of your home directory configuration
> changes) were excluded (hopefully).
>
> Your gedit is using the root user.  *Are you working as root? ** [You
> should never work as root!]*
>
> So to immediately resolve these errors, which relate to a missing
> directory:
>
>
> [root at cgws1 sbin]# gedit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
> (gedit:2673): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into
> `/root/.local/share/recently-
>>
>>      used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file
>> '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.F2PF1V': No such file or directory
>>
>> (gedit:2673): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of
>> `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or
>> directory
>
> you must:
>
> # sudo su
> # cd ~root/
> # chmod -R a+rw /root/.local
>
> There is a good possibility that root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel does
> not exist.  You would make the directories then, based on what is missing:
>
> # du -h  # watch for directories under .local
>
> # mkdir /root/.local
> # mkdir /root/.local/share
>
> And then chmod it:
> # chmod -R u+rwx ~root/
>
> Note:
>
> chmod -R is going to do it on all existing files, not just directories.
>
> To target all the .local directories you can use find + xargs
>
> find .local/ -type d | xargs chmod u+wrx
>
>
> That will fix these issues immediately, however you could also use *gksudo
> * which runs gedit under root permissions.  To see the full configuration
> settings for gedit:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/gedit
>
>
> And googling your exact error, we find this:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1586728.html
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James
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