topic title: Directory '/var/run/screen' must have mode 777
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handheldcar
Joined: 18 Jun 2010
#1
I got tired of switching to root just to fix this problem and run screen as my normal user, so I looked it up and found these solutions from Red Hat and Debian. First, as root, I had to change that directory's group to utmp:

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chgrp utmp /var/run/screen/
Then, the terminal told me that /var/run/screen needed mode 775, so still as root I entered:

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chmod 775 /var/run/screen/
and it's been working ever since. Don't forget to run screen as a normal user!