Henrik Olsen wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
> > On 15 Apr 00, at 4:22, Henrik Olsen wrote:
> >
> > > I just tried downloading 20.3, both mprime and sprime, as well as tried
> > > with mprime 19.0.2 . None of them where able to detect the network as
> > > being available on a machine running Mandrake Linux, kernel version
> > > 2.2.14-15mdksecure, probably due to /proc/net not being readable by
> > > non-root on such a system, which is a bit of a bummer, as I as I don't
> > > want to have to run it as root. :(
> > >
> > > Does a solution exist for running mprime on such a system or will I have
> > > to use this one as well for SNFS sieving instead of GIMPS?
> >
Hello,
I actually was pretty annoyed by the mkdsec kernel. With the security
patch applied I actually compiled a new kernel in which /proc is
readable by everyone
(More programs suffered from /proc not being readable). This even is the
default
for the security patch! (Most important is the buffer overflow
protection)
Kind Regards, Martijn
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