I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack
-- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write
permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!"
Has anyone else gotten this or is this unique to me?
What, no Nethack?! Now this is a serious err
>I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack
> -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write
> permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!"
This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought).
I don't remember which files
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On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
>I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack
> -- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of "No write
> permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!"
>
>Has anyone els
> This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought).
> I don't remember which files had wrong permissions, but here
> are the perms on the relevant files in /var/lib/games/nethack:
> drwxrwxr-x 3 root games1024 Jun 4 11:05 /var/lib/games/nethack/
Thanks Sue.
Scott K. Ellis:
> It appears that that was a wierd glitch in the upgrade, purging and
> re-installing nethack fixed that for me when I encountered it.
I think I've found the cause of the problem. It only happens if you upgrade
nethack. Looking at the nethack postinst:
chown root.games /var/lib/ga
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