Re: nethack

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

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:

 : Nathan E Norman hat gesagt: // Nathan E Norman wrote:
 : 
 : > 
 : > 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 ...
 : 
 : Could be that nethack is not allowd to write in the directory 
 : /var/lib/games/nethack/

I'm pretty sure I posted the permissions, but here goes ...

 : Check this:
 : # ls -la /var/lib/games/nethack/
 : drwxrwsr-x   3 root     games        1024 Nov 17 12:29 .
 :       ^- this is important
 : drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root         1024 Nov  6 13:10 ..
 : -rw-rw-r--   1 root     games         966 Dec  7  1997 logfile
 : -rw-rw-r--   1 root     games           0 Oct 29  1997 perm
 : -rw-rw-r--   1 root     games         745 Dec  7  1997 record
 : drwxrwxr-x   2 root     games        1024 Aug 19  1997 save

brahe:~ $ ls -la /var/lib/games/nethack/
total 5
drwxrwsr-x   3 root     games        1024 Dec  4 16:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Dec  4 16:18 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     games          53 Dec  4 16:24 logfile
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     games           0 Dec  7 16:42 perm
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     games          53 Dec  4 16:24 record
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     games        1024 Oct 29  1997 save/

 : What version of nethack are you using? I remember this was a very old bug,
 : that should be removed by now.

brahe:~ $ dpkg -l nethack
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  nethack         3.2.2-11       Text-based/X11 overhead view D&D-style adven

I had read that the bug was fixed.  Apparently not.

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