On Wed Oct 14 1998 01:33, St Xaviers College wrote:
(Hey, you have a school named after you! :-)
> I have a Slackware Linux 96 on my machine installed. My "svgalib"
> does not work, if not logged in as root. For instance to run "tmview" ---
> a dvi-previewer with linux/svgalib to preview .dvi files I have to open
> another session as a root, and while I try to run it otherwise it says :
> "svgalib : Cannot get I/O permissions."
>
> What need I do to run as any user ?
That's an old version of slugware you are using. (Upgrade to something
like a recent verion of Debian, RedHat or SuSE).
You'll need to do one of two things... upgrade to the latest version of
svgalib, or (not recommended) suid root ("chmod u+s") the svgalib apps that
you want users to be able to use.
Cheers
Tony
