Broken nethack?

1997-06-05 Thread Randy Edwards
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

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread sacampbe
>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

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread Randy Edwards
> 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.

Re: Broken nethack?

1997-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
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