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

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