On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Kali McLaughlin wrote: > Like many before me I have failed to get Arachne to run under Linux. > The Install program seems to run, and makes familiar looking files in > believable directories, but at the key point when you type "arachne" > there is the strange complaint that arachne-svgalib does not exist.
When you do 'ls -l /usr/bin/arachne-svgalib' do you see this? -rwsrwsr-x 1 root root 267224 Jan 12 2001 /usr/bin/arachne-svgalib The 's' permission bit indicates that no matter what user runs the program, it will be run with root permissions. > This is strange because it is not only in /usr/bin where it is meant to > be, but also in usr/arachne-1.66b for some reason. I am doubly sure of > this because I am running monkey linux which allows me to look where > everything is with XTREE. > This all feels like a path or location muckup. It does feel that way, but you say arachne-svgalib is in /usr/bin, so it now feels like a permission muckup. The install program should have set the permissions when it moved the stuff to /usr/bin, but I suppose it's possible that it didn't. > I am very happy with monkey linux by the way - > It does ftp, telnet, xwindows, agetty to a WYSE terminal, and even > DOSEMU! When was the last time you did 'chkdisk' ? -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
