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Re: Executor/Linux



In your message (Wed, 10 May 1995 02:08:08 -0700 (PDT)), you wrote:
>In your letter, 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.
>Apparently it is a permision bug. 1.99m will work if run as root.
>My guess is that somewhere in the code, there's a
>fopen that returned NULL, but is not checked for, so when that file 
>pointer is used, *boom* seg fault. Haven't gotten around to figuring 
>out which file it needs permisions. Prehaps it is one of those
>in ExecutorVol. Anyone have any idea?

Running as root is not necessary.  Just give universal write 
permission in your ExecutorVolume directory:

chmod -R a+w /usr/local/lib/executor/ExecutorVolume

This is far from ideal, but better than having to run the program as 
root all the time.

Tim.



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