Re: svgalib (restorefont) permissions
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Peter Tobias wrote:
> Paul Kirschner wrote:
> > I'm trying to use runx from svgalib to fix some problems exiting from X
> > but restorefont fails with...
> >
> > {debian:1} /usr/bin/restorefont -w fontdata
> > /usr/bin/restorefont: Permission denied.
> >
> > it's permissions are:
> >
> > -rwxr-x--- 1 root console 8196 Jan 7 14:58 /usr/bin/restorefont
> > -rwsr-x--- 1 root console 8196 Jan 7 14:58
> > /usr/bin/restorepalette
> > -rwsr-x--- 1 root console 8196 Jan 7 14:58
> > /usr/bin/restoretextmode
> >
> > How can this be run from a user account? From the root account it works
> > fine!
>
> Just add the user to the console group (in /etc/group).
>
That's a little closer but still doesn't work yet. Now I get...
{debian:3} restorefont -w fontdata
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
Now what do I do?
BTW - this is the latest svgalib-1.28-2.deb.
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