nethack

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

What's the secret to get nethack to work?  I have it sgid games, but it
says it can't open /var/lib/games/nethack/perm ...

brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll `which nethack`
-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     games        1137 Oct 29  1997
/usr/games/nethack*
brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ ll
total 3
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     games          53 Dec  4 16:24 logfile
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     games           0 Oct 29  1997 perm
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     games          53 Dec  4 16:24 record
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     games        1024 Oct 29  1997 save/
brahe:/var/lib/games/nethack $ nethack

NetHack, Copyright 1985-1996
         By Stichting Mathematisch Centrum and M. Stephenson.
         See license for details.
/var/lib/games/nethack/perm_lock: Operation not permitted
Cannot lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm for unknown reason (1).



Do I have to set this SUID games ... and doesn't that make it impossible
to save games if there's more than one player?

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