i'm a newbie myself. but i'll try to help. first, the group of "gopher" is certainly wrong. the user of "500" means that there's no user with a uid of 500. you probably just want to change everything to root.root.
about the permission problem. it happens really early on. what is the contents of /etc/dosemu/dosemu.users? pete begin Gary Wynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am having problems accessing DOSEMU to run it. A technician set it > up on my machine for me, but I cannot get it to run. Here is what I > get: > > DOSEMU will run on _this_ terminal. > To exit you need to execute 'exitemu' from within DOS, > because <Ctrl>-C and 'exit' won't work! > > Hint: if you want $HOME as DOS drive D:, use '-home' option > > Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or <Ctrl>C to cancel\n > > ENTER > permission denied > > I am running RHL 7.1 on a pentium III. I am running in text mode only. > I did a chmod 777 *.* on the dosemu directory, and a chown gary.users > on that same directory. > > I get: > total 44 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 4 14:36 . > drwxr-x--- 12 root root 4096 Jan 4 14:33 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 18 17:18 bin > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 18 17:21 conf > -rwxrwxrwx 1 500 gopher 10214 Jun 2 2001 dosemu > -rwxrwxrwx 1 gary users 367 Jun 10 2001 FDchange.log > drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Sep 18 17:18 freedos > -rwxrwxrwx 1 gary users 2997 Jun 10 2001 README.bindist > lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 gopher 6 Sep 18 17:18 xdosemu -> dosemu > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 18 17:18 Xfonts > > I am *very* new to linux, so I do not understand why gopher appears > here. Also, I do not know why I cannot seem to change it, or how > dosemu can be run if gopher appears as the group. > > TIA > Gary > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
