Dear MacROOTers I have just discoverd that I cannot run my programs in ROOT under MacOS X when I am logged in as a normal user (staff), since I get the following message: CAUTION: tmpfile /var/tmp/tmp.2.xxx-cint canīt open Error: could not create file /var/tmp/tmp.2.xxx-cint Until now I was logged into MacOS X as single user (admin). However, like Linux people learn that they usually should not login as root, in OS X you should also create a normal user (staff) and not login as adminstrator. For this reason I created a user and downloaded ROOT from CVS into my user directory. Using the ROOT version compiled in the user directory results in the error shown above, since a normal user is not able to access the /var directory which is a link to /private/var, where /private is the root home directory, and only root has read/write permissions to /private/var. Do you know how I can solve this problem? One possibility would be to chmod /private/var to all others, however, I am not sure if this is a good idea, since I do not know why Apple has made a link from /var to /private/var. There must be a reason? Maybe, the best possibility would be if cint would use its own /tmp directory or check first if the user has created a /User/tmp driectory. Thank you in advance for your help Best regards Christian _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ C.h.r.i.s.t.i.a.n S.t.r.a.t.o.w.a V.i.e.n.n.a A.u.s.t.r.i.a _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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