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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA10411 for <executor@nacm.com>; Wed, 10 May 1995 08:55:12 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Wed, 10 May 1995 16:54:39 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA23454; Wed, 10 May 95 16:59:30 +0100 Message-Id: <9505101559.AA23454@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: huny@ugcs.caltech.edu (Dragon Slayer) Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Executor/Linux In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 1995 02:08:08 PDT." <199505100908.CAA15574@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:59:29 +0100 From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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.