[Companion] bug and resolution, using Y! toolbar with firefox on debian

[Miles Libbey]

FWIW, the googlebar project has the same problems :(

miles

--- petar marinov <esheep at operamail.com> wrote:

> Installing the Yahoo toolbar (0.5.4) on firefox (1.0) for debian
> testing 
> works fine for the root user but fails for all other users. Using
> strace 
> I figured the problem.
> 
> The directory yahootoolbar_saves is created in such a way
> (attributes) 
> that it prohibits any further access, then Y! toolbar fails all file 
> operations.
> 
> attributes are:
> drw-r--r--  2 petarma eng   4096 2004-11-29 17:32 yahootoolbar_saves/
> 
> To fix the problem I did this:
> chmod u+x yahootoolbar_saves
> 
> it results in:
> drwxr--r--  2 petarma eng   4096 2004-11-30 07:57 yahootoolbar_saves/
> 
> I believe you can provide the appropriate attributes when creating
> the 
> directory. I would've filed a bug report but bugzilla on mozdev.org
> is 
> currently broken.
> 
> -petar
> http://geocities.com/h2428
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