Re: Reports & Questions
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Arkadi E. Shishlov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:25:39PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> > node@genius:~$ xterm
> > xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.7: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > As root, libXaw.so.7 isn't found normally, but is found if
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set. I can't think why running as root would change
> > the behaviour of the interpretation of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Is your xterm binary setuid root? Have you _really_ tried other
> applications?
No, but it was:
node@genius:~/proj/flac$ ls -l `which xterm`
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 263004 Mar 4 13:01 /usr/bin/X11/xterm
It's now not g+s and it does work.. weird (to me, at least.)
Bob
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