David Jardine wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > jude@md:~$ sudo ls -l /var/games/nethack > > total 20 > > drwxr-sr-x 2 root games 4096 Jul 10 07:43 bones > > It looks as if you don't have read permission on the /var/games/nethack > directory itself. It looks to me like the nethack installation was chmod'd after install to remove group write permission. On a fresh install you should have the following: $ ls -ld /var/games/nethack drwxrwsr-x 4 root games 4096 Jul 11 11:45 /var/games/nethack $ ls -l /var/games/nethack total 8 drwxrwsr-x 2 root games 4096 May 14 2010 dumps/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 Jul 11 11:45 logfile -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 Jul 11 11:45 perm -rw-rw-r-- 1 root games 0 Jul 11 11:45 record drwxrwsr-x 2 root games 4096 May 14 2010 save/ $ ls -l /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack-* -rwxr-sr-x 1 root games 1768936 May 14 2010 /usr/lib/games/nethack/nethack-console The setgid is normal. But your permissions on the directory have been corrupted. You could probably fix the permissions. Or purge and re-install but that would of course lose any of your saved games. Bob
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