[vlc] Re: Some directories are drwxr-xr-- (VLC Mac OS X)

[suzie241 at tampabay.rr.com]

Steve, I will delete your email. I'm not sure to whom you are writing. I am 
suzie241 at tampabay.rr.com. I'm afraid 
my computer skills are limited. I understand almost nothing in your email; seems like a 
foreign language to me! 

----- Original Message -----
From: "steveHA at t-online.de" <steveHA at t-online.de>
Date: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:15 pm
Subject: [vlc] Some directories are drwxr-xr-- (VLC Mac OS X)
To: vlc at videolan.org

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have not subscribed to this list.
> 
> In short:
> Some directories are not executable for "other".
> 
> Discription:
> I have downloaded vlc-0.8.6c.dmg
> As admin I have copied VLC.app to the Applications folder.
> I've started VLC and it works.
> I've logged in as a user, but now I can not run VLC.
> 
> Diagnosis:
> As admin I started the terminal.
> ls -l /Applications
> drwxr-xr-- VLC.app
> some further subdirectories of VLC.app are not executable for others
> 
> Solution:
> chmod o+x VLC.app
> chmod o+x $some_subdirectories
> 
> Now I can run VLC as user.
> 
> I hope, setting some execuable flags is no security issue.
> 
> If possible, it would be nice if you "delete" my address from this 
> mail.
> Greetings
> steveha
> 
> PS: Thanks for VLC in general, thanks for VLC for Mac OS X.
> 
> 
> 
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