At 14:51 15.04.2000 +0200, 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?
Check /etc/fstab.
There's a line there that says something like
none /proc proc something 0 0
If you change "something" (whatever that is) to "defaults", and umount and
mount /proc, everyone can probably read it.
No idea why Mandrake would choose not to make it world readable....
Harald
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