210831 Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. > Did you mean -r3 ?
Yes, a typo. >> I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd. >> 'which xscreensaver-systemd' finds nothing >> nor can I see any helpful messages in a file in /var/log . >> I have set the binary's permissions to SUID : >> root:526 /usr/bin> ls -l xscreensaver >> -rws--s--x 1 root root 51880 Aug 31 07:18 xscreensaver > Not sure if this is helpful, but I have neither elogind or systemd > in USE for this package, and it seems to work fine. It seems to be working correctly now, tho' only time will tell. I believe I needed to reboot to get the new version set up properly & instead I initially tried a "setuid root", which used to be required. Now apparently, it is strickly forbidden (grimace). Anyway, after a remerge & reboot & no "setuid", it got going as it should. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
