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Re: Executor/Linux



On Tue, 9 May 1995, Carlo J. Calica wrote:

> I'm having difficulty getting the Linux version of Executor to run
> any of the programs in the Demos directory.  It just core dumps all
> the time.  Anyone have any luck?  Thanks.
>  
> -- 
>  _____________________________________________________________________
> / Carlo J. Calica,           Linux, the Choice of the GNU Generationi \
> |      CAE Consultant        Debian, the distributed distribution      |
> |calica@cae.wisc.edu (Work)  calica@buffett.engr.wisc.edu (Home)i      |
> 

So far, a lot of people have posted this same question to the list.  
What's happened is that the permissions are set to read-only on the 
/usr/local/lib/executor directory, and instead of telling you that it's 
not able to write to its configuration file, Executor coredumps instead
(should be fixed by the next version...).  Anyway, all you have to do is 
either recursively change the permissions on the /usr/local/lib/executor
directory tree to world writable:

chmod -R og+w /usr/local/lib/executor

Or change the owner to the account you want to run Executor under (unless 
you're running it as root in which case you shouldn't be having this 
problem), for example:

chown -R jehamby.users /usr/local/lib/executor

Hope this solves everyone's problem that is having coredumps in E/Linux.  
I know I was mystified myself when it first happened to me...

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