On 15-Hei-00, Antti wrote:

>> The previous installation was source installation. But I fixed the
>> problem. I added myself to the games group because nethack-tty
>> is a setgid executable. But even this was not sufficient, because
>> the installation creates nethackdir read-only for group. After
>> I changed nethackdir writeable for group the game started fine.
>> But there was another bug in the installation as well: it does
>> not create the save file directory to nethackdir, so I had to
>> add this as well. After these steps the game works well.
> 
> Hmm, weird, last I tried a source installation it worked fine. Who uses
> binaries anyways?

Yes, the source installation did work for me when I did it on another
machine a few months ago, but the binary installation did not work.

> No, the executable is setgid games for the exact reason that players
> don't have to (and should not) belong to group games.

Whoops, I did things in the wrong order. First added my self to
games group (for nothing) and after that, when things did not work, checked
the mode for the dir... well it was Saturday morning so I guess
Friday evening is an acceptable excuse.


About fixing things: I try and see what I can do, but this might take
some time... 
 
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Arto Huusko
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