--- David Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ran into a strange problem today when running x under the hurd. > > I noticed that I was not able to load some programs under X as a user. > > At first I thought that this was a user vs root permissions problem > because I hadn't seen this under the root login. > > But I found out by ldd'ing some of the programs and verifying that the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH was correctly configured to point to /X11R6/lib for > the user account that ldd _failed_ to find libX11.so even with the > correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH. >
These binaries that you can't run are suid, so LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
