Hi -
>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> I"m trying to run nethack. however, i get repsonses to hte
Rick> effect of
Rick> No write permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!
Rick> checking the permissions,
Rick> 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 May 27 02:02 logfile
Rick> 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 May 27 02:02 perm
Rick> 0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 May 27 02:02 record
Rick> 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 root games 1024 May 27 02:02 save
The problem is the directory listed there itself. If "." was listed
above, I think it'd be mode 755, with no permission for the group to
write.
chmod 775 /var/lib/games/nethack/
should do it (it did for me with version 3.2.2-7).
Rick> And I did add myself to group games (though i'm pretty sure i
Rick> didn't have to do this last time).
Yeah, nethack is setuid games, you don't have to be in the group.
I submitted a bug report on this, since I didn't see a fixed version on
master or anywhere yet, but the developer said,
> Nethack should either be up to -8 or -9, depending on whether I've
> uploaded the one I'm looking at right now. :)
>
> Anyway, the bug was fixed a while ago. (in -8, according to the
changelog)
so it's coming down the pike somewhere.
Hth,
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Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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