On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:09:53AM +1100, Peter Torning wrote: > In a nutshell, a system is running Red Hat 7.1. I first used the game of > Maelstrom as root, while I was checking the system. As a result, the > game will not run for users. I was able to replicate the problem on > another machine - same thing happened. If the first time Maelstrom is > run, it is run as root, then it will not run for any users.
One option may be to use strace or ltrace to watch the program run as a normal user and see if there's any files or devices it's trying to access and being told EPERM for ? For example: strace -f -o maelstrom.log /path/to/maelstrom Would log all the system calls from Maelstrom (and any forked processes) to the log file maelstrom.log. Good luck! Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
