On Sat Jul 15 2000 at 15:20:49 +0300, Arto Huusko 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?

> I think these problems should be fixed: shouldn't packages be
> ready to run installations? Oh, and after installation there
> should be a note that players must be part of games group.
> Or is it a thing that goes without saying :)

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

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                    Of course he runs NetBSD.