On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: > Remco van de Meent wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: > > > > : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: > > : ((ls);(ls)) > > : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? > > : > > : It is a little important for me, because it is how the Netscape 4 spawns > > : an external helper: > > : ((gv temp_file.ps);(rm temp_file.ps)) > > : > > : In tcsh it works, however I cannot force Netscape to spawn processes in > > : tcsh. > > > > bash-2.00 introduced this 'feature' of not-working indeed. Upgrade to 2.01 > > and everything will be fine again.
> not everything is fine. I have done according to your advice: got bash-2.01 > source and compiled it. > Netscape works now, but when a non-privileged user run startx, there is a > message: > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > >Error: Cannot open "compiled/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard > description > > Exiting This just happened to me, but I was also playing with "XkbDisable" (for wabi) at the same time. Plus, I an startx once as root (which I never have tried before). Anyway, I changed the permissions of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/ to 777 and seems well again. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
