Re: permissions on /etc/ld.so.conf
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 03:22:49PM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
>
> > > In the past few days, /etc/ld.so.conf must have its permissions changed to
> > > 600. The result: I can't run xdvi as non-root, getting an error stating
> > Strange. My /etc/ld.so.conf is 600 too, but my xdvi runs nicely.
>
> Don't ask me... I have no idea why xdvi would want to access
> /etc/ld.so.conf anyway.
It doesn't. ld-linux.so.2 acceses. This program is used for all
dynamically linked executables to resolve the shared libraries. It needs
to read ld.so.conf in order to find all the directories where libraries
might be located. In this case /usr/X11R6/lib. Since it can't read the
file, it cannot find the needed libraries, and thus the program will not
run.
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