Howdy... The current hamm xmcd package seems to not like running on my machine. First, it complains about having insufficient privlidges:
overmind:/temple/sw/linux/debian ] /usr/X11R6/bin/xmcd xmcd Fatal Error: Xmcd binary permissions error: It should be setuid root. Please have your system administrator correct this. It's setgid cdrom, and /dev/scd0 is owned by group cdrom, so it should have sufficient permissions to read the device: overmind:/temple/sw/linux/debian ] ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xmcd -rwxr-sr-x 1 root cdrom 230572 Oct 13 08:12 /usr/X11R6/bin/xmcd overmind:/temple/sw/linux/debian ] ls -l /dev/scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Dec 19 1996 /dev/scd0 I'm also in group cdrom, which shouldn't matter since the binary is setgid: overmind:/temple/sw/linux/debian ] grep cdrom /etc/group cdrom:*:24:peewee overmind:/temple/sw/linux/debian ] ypcat group | grep cdrom cdrom:*:24:peewee Setting the binary +s allowed it to run, and start sucking all available memory: overmind:/var/adm ] ps -auxww | grep xmcd peewee 28825 0.0 0.5 836 360 p0 S 19:17 0:00 grep xmcd root 28809 43.3 50.7 64088 32116 p1 D 19:16 0:24 /usr/X11R6/bin/xmcd If it matters, it was attempting to do a CDDB lookup at the time. PeeWee -- "Learn to knit for all I care, but find something rhythmical to do before bed" -Amanda Robinson -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.scc.mi.org/peewee/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp2.6.2 public key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .