P.S. I moved QuickMUD back to my user access directory located in home ie...
/home/*username*/QuickMUD/
Thanks for the info.
Dantin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dantin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Rom in RedHat 7.3
> > Okay I just want to get this thing started. I'm just so used to
> Windows
> > 98 its a slow transfer over to Linux. Heres where I have it installed.
> > /usr/QuickMUD/ is this wrong?
>
> Well.. there's wrong, and then there's WRONG. In your case it's merely
> breaking convention. It'll work in /usr. A lot of people don't own the
> system they're running on, so they have a user account, and their mud is
in
> something like /home/bob/Rom
>
> > I had to log into RedHat under root to move
> > the mud there.
>
> You'll want to create a new user, chown everything in the folder to that
> user, and run the mud as that user. Running anything as root
unnecessarily
> is a no-no.
>
> > something like that. I've managed to compile it just can't run it. Any
> help?
>
> How is it not running? Or, what error message do you get?
>
> --palrich.
>
>
