On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Arkadi E. Shishlov wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:25:39PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm > > xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.7: cannot load > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > As root, libXaw.so.7 isn't found normally, but is found if > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set. I can't think why running as root would change > > the behaviour of the interpretation of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > Is your xterm binary setuid root? Have you _really_ tried other > applications?
No, but it was: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/proj/flac$ ls -l `which xterm` -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 263004 Mar 4 13:01 /usr/bin/X11/xterm It's now not g+s and it does work.. weird (to me, at least.) Bob -- Bob Ham: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pkl.net/~node/ IRC: 'node' on irc.openprojects.net: #slashdot ICQ: 4396425 'node' "The GNU philosophy is about freedom. To be free one must have personal power. Personal power is an individual thing, difficult to obtain and quick to perish." --Krisno Pryosusilo
