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Re: Running Dosemu as root



On 25 Aug 2001, George Petri wrote:
> On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:26, mkeithley@pobox.com wrote:
> > I got dosemu1.0.2 and it seems it is now impossible to run it as root.
> > Is this true?
> 
> This is a bug and you need to download the source and
> 
> "in src/plugin/coopthreads/coopthreads.h change
> 
> -#if 1
> +#if 0
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #define COM_CHECK_PERMISSIONS { \
> "
> 

I had the same problem for a time but it seems to have been fixed in the
latest deb version of dosemu: 1.0.2-5.

> > As far as I can tell, I need to run it as root to get
> > read/write access on a mounted windows partition where there are dos
> > programs I like to use.
> >
> 
> That depends on how your windows partitions were mounted.
> 
> George

I think that what the original poster wants to do is to mount the dos
partition directly, without using hdimage. This is what I do myself, and
it has to be done as root, using sudo, otherwise you get messages about
not having access to the lock files.


Anthony


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