[Sussex] permissions & crashes?

[Thomas Adam]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:31:27PM +0000, John D. wrote:
> Done that Thomas, but now the app (gnubg) tries to start but stops
> after about a second or two.

The permissions on that binary are weird. There's nothing stopping you
from issuing the command (as root):

chmod 755 $(which gnubg)

... in fact, this is what I *would* do. None of this crap with group
ownership. It's nonsensical for an application such as gnubg.

> I haven't got a clue as to where I'd find a log for gnubg - cos it
> doesn't seem to have an entry of any kind in /var/log?

Applications rarely log to /var/log/messages -- only daemons. I note
that gnubg uses libguile (scheme) -- have you run "gnubg" in an xterm?
Do you see any output from that? Failing that, we might have to go down
the strace route, but I'll wait and see.

> I have absolutely no idea of how I'd accomplish cd ripping/encoding
> with CLI anyway. even the link that was posted for me last week
> about a "dictionary" of commands isn't much help, as it's just an
> alphabetical list of commands i.e. more of a glossary, rather than a
> list of "stuff" that then identifies the command that I'd need to do
> something.

Just what kind of dictionary are you after, John? I could quite happily
put something together for you.

> Plus, even though I have a link about decyphering man pages, they're
> still pretty much a total mystery too me.

Manpages have always caused contention (don't even get me started on
info pages). Can you elaborate?

-- Thomas Adam

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