Ahhhh...

I don't bother with RPM's myself.  I always insist on source code (call 
me nuts but I want code ::grinz::)

Frank



Matthew Melvin wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 at 9:28am (-0600), Frank Carreiro wrote:
> 
>> Strange that it would seg fault as a normal user.  I haven't tried
>> Maelstrom yet in RH7.1 however I have it installed on a 6.2 box and it
>> runs fine from any user account.
> 
> 
> Some investigation showed that although they were all describing themselves
> as 3.0.1 the rpm's from redhat (such as I could find) had this problem and
> the rpms and source from the author's site did not.  Perhaps this explains
> the differences you're seeing.  It could also have to do with your umask.
> If, for instnace, your umask was set to 002 and your users shared their
> group (not default redhat settings) then they would have write access to the
> temporary file even though they didn't own it.
> 
>> I would check permissions though I can't see why lack of permissions
>> would seg fault anything. <---(ignorance speaking here).
> 
> 
> In this case it was becuase the return of a syscall was not checked.  So
> when it failed (permission denied) it wasn't handled properly and the
> program tried to use a filehandle that didn't exist.
> 
> M.
> 



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