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- From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
- Subject: shell-init permission denieds
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.160110.19395@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:01:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.142344.2414@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Illinois State University
- Lines: 80
-
- Hi again everybody!
-
- First, the GOOD news: Someone recently posted a question on how to make
- xfish a screen saver under x. Go directly to export.lcs.mit.edu (do not
- pass Go, etc.) and pick up the file xsaver.tar.Z. This is a neat screen
- saver which will let you use ANY program which can be configured to write
- to the root window as a screen saver (including xfish and xlock and the
- tons of screen savers which come with it) and allows you to add new modules
- without recompiling the code. Very nice. To port, comment out all of the
- offending duplicate declarations and SYGSYS, SIGBUS stuff. I would upload
- patched code/binaries, but I have not been able to get sz from within
- Seyon 1.5 to talk to the remote unix machine (on which I had started rz).
-
- Which leads me to my first question :-)
-
- In Seyon, I have the following command to upload files:
-
- "regular zmodem ul" "$ cd /usr/local/ul; sz -b" y
- (the y means prompt for filenames)
-
- on my unix machine I tried rz -vv and rz alone, before starting sz. Both
- seem to start, but neither talks to one another. sz from the remote and
- xrz on the local machine work flawlessly! Any ideas, tips, glaring
- stupidies I'm committing?
-
- And now my 2nd question:
-
- When running this nifty new screen saver, I get the following messages to
- standard out:
-
- : Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
- : Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
-
- many, many times ...
-
- : Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
- : Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
- shell-init: Permission denied
-
- These occur each time the screen saver tries to load a new module
- (every 10 minutes the way I have it configured). All the programs load
- and run just fine, except for these annoying messages in my xterm
- window. This happened before all of a sudden when I logged in as non-
- root, and I fixed the problem by backing up my root partition and
- rebuilding the filesystem.
-
- (by the way, I got these messages running the program as ROOT).
-
- A sample of the executables:
-
- -rwx--x--x 1 root root 32807 Dec 18 23:57 attraction*
- -rwx--x--x 1 root root 31609 Dec 18 23:55 hypercube*
- -rwx--x--x 1 root root 41659 Dec 18 23:55 xscreensaver*
- -rwx--x--x 1 root root 13600 Dec 18 23:55 xscreensaver-command*
-
- Is there a permisseion set wrong somewhere? Is my filesystem (which has
- served me so well for so long) about to die? Any help, ideas, etc.
- would be much appreciated!!
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Jean.
-
- PS - I will upload binaries of the screensaver if I can get the rz/sz
- thing figured out. To those porting, all but rocks works -- rocks dumps
- core with a floating point exception on my i486. I didn't bother to
- look at it last night to figure out why, and I'm off to a friends graduation
- today -- so if anyone beats me to the solution, I'd love to hear from you!
-
- --
- Jean Liddle
- Computer Science, Illinois State University
- e-mail: jliddle@ilstu.edu
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