Bug#2641: nethack fails on start-up

[andrew@toaster.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)]

David Frey writes:
>
> Hi Karl,
> hi everybody,
>
> Karl> NetHack, Copyright 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
> Karl>          By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.
> Karl>          See license for details.
> Karl> Warning: cannot write scoreboard file /usr/lib/games/nethack/record
>                                             ^^^^should be var
>
> To the packager of nethack: transient files should go into /var, in
> nethack's case the record, lock files and scores should go into the var
> partition.

It does. If you look the /usr record file is a symlink to /var

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           29 Mar 27 22:47 record -> /var/lib/games
/nethack/record

Andrew

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Andrew Howell		   		      howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au
Perth, Western Australia	     andrew@it.com.au andrew@debian.org