On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Rich Shepard wrote: > Last week I was able to run alsamixer as a user on the Sony Vaio; this > morning I cannot because the system tells me that there is no such file or > directory as alsamixer, even when passed the absolute path of > /usr/bin/alsamixer. Root has no problems with this file. The permissions are > 755 so a user should be able to execute it. If the distribution is applicable > it's Slackware-14.0/x86_64 will all security patches applied.
Update: running 'file /usr/bin/alsamixer' shows it's a 64-bit ELF using shared libraries. Running 'ldd /usr/bin/alsamixer' shows me that all libraries are found. What other tests can I run to find why this tool works for root but not for a user? Do I need to make permissions for /usr 777? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
