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Re: environment / screen / X
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James Morrison |
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Re: environment / screen / X |
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Sun, 12 May 2002 01:08:46 -0700 (PDT) |
--- David Walter <dwalter@syr.edu> wrote:
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> I ran into a strange problem today when running x under the hurd.
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> I noticed that I was not able to load some programs under X as a user.
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> At first I thought that this was a user vs root permissions problem
> because I hadn't seen this under the root login.
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> But I found out by ldd'ing some of the programs and verifying that the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH was correctly configured to point to /X11R6/lib for
> the user account that ldd _failed_ to find libX11.so even with the
> correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
These binaries that you can't run are suid, so LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored.
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James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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