On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:05:23 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:11:20PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I'm having trouble setting preferences in Sunbird.  Rather, I can
> > set (most) preferences, but they're not saved.  This message shows
> > up in the error console.
> 
> Stupid first try based on similiar errors in the past:
> Is the configuration directory actually writeable and all files in it?
> 
Good catch.  I'd checked the directory but not prefs.js -- that solves
that problem.  The next problem, of course, is why prefs.js is being
created mode 444....  I'll send-pr.  (Everything else in the directory
is owner-writable.)

Thanks.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb