I’m looking for some community wisdom here, particular in light of being totally overwhelmed between roof issues, four days of power outages, water bed failures, dryer failure, heater failure, I’ve obviously done something to piss-off the creator.

     Anyway, I use the old eskimo.com system still as the NIS master and also do some of the system accounting using some x-apps.  To do this I use X redirection via ssh by connecting ssh -X eskimo.com.

     The home directory is NOT out of space or quota, yet I get an error that says xauth can not create the .Xauthority file.  But if I ssh to another account on that machine it works fine so it has to be something in my home directory environment that is messed, yet, ssh -X to any other machine works so it also has to be something specific to this machine.  I am wondering if I am running into some file system limit of SunOS but of course it is not giving any errors that would help.

     Any ideas would be much appreciated.