can't run mozilla

[Berségol Régis]

Hi,

I can't run mozilla if I am not logged in root.
is this normal?
What can I do to launch mozilla when I'm not a superuser?
My OS is HP-UX 11iv1.

[Pete Randall]

Do you get an error message or is the command simply not found because it's not in your path?


Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

No, it's not normal. It is almost certainly permissions on the executables on on the current directory. It would really help to see the error messages or at least the exit status of the command when run as a regular user.

[Bruno Ganino]

Look the permission, perhaps don't have with others user.
HTH
Bruno

[Fred Ruffet]

What message does it gives to you if you launch it from an xterm ?

[Berségol Régis]

thank you for your helps.
In /opt/mozilla, here permissions are on the following files:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin mozilla*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin mozilla-bin*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin mozilla-config*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin mozilla-xremote-client*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin run-mozilla.sh*

On the other hand, I've no return error when I launch mozilla (not in root).
I can maybe have any logs but I don't now where I can find them.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

How about the permissions of /opt and /opt/mozilla ?

Robert-Jan

[Berségol Régis]

dr-xr-xr-x 48 bin bin opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 10 bin bin mozilla/

I think these permissions are good..

[T G Manikandan]

$which mozilla

check that the PATH for the users are set properly.Which mozilla executable you are launching.

[Bruno Ganino]

see this Faq
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/hpux.html

and
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/

Bruno

[Bruno Ganino]

If exist /usr/lib/mozilla directory (or similar) try change the permission.
Example chmod -R 755

(it's not the best fix as it makes alot of files executable that shouldn't be but will make mozilla work correctly for normal users)

Bruno

[Rick Beldin · Accepted solution]

Bad permissions on the .rdf and other files in /opt/mozilla/chrome can also be a problem.

If you have HP's mozilla, try a swverify of Mozilla product.

[Berségol Régis]

Thanks Rick,
The problem is solved.
The file /opt/mozilla/chrome/chrome.rdf had wrong permissions.
-rw------- 1 root sys chrome.rdf

I operated a "chmod 644 chrome.rdf" and my problem was solved.

Thanks to everybody who contributed to the solution.