Hi All,
This is my first message to this group. I've been using fink for about 6 months now (my first version of fink was 0.2.5) and have used it to install Xfreee86 on both my home and work machines. I've been involved in porting a software package written here at NIST (OOF, see http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/oof/) from Unix/Linux to Mac OS X. (Mostly my job consisted of finding fink and convincing the code's writer that everything needed to compile OOF was now ported and easily obtainable for OS X.) Now, for my first silly question. I was playing nethack at home and kept getting an error like: GNOME-error: can't open per-users /Users/username/.gnome/accels... So, I used "sudo nethack" which worked fine (if you like playing as 'root'). Next, I ran a "ls -al" and saw that I was the owner of .gnome/ but the permissions on it were "drw-------", so I "chmod 777 .gnome". Now nethack runs fine. My questions are: Am I doing a bad thing by opening up the .gnome directory? (I would think that write permission would be more dangerous than execute permission.) And if not, why is the directory created with such restricted permissions? Thanks, Mark -- Mark R. Locatelli National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Science Engineering Laboratory Ceramics Division, Ceramic Manufacturing Group Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8521 (301)975-5636 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~mloco/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
