Re: [gentoo-hardened] foldingathome and PAX

[Brian Kroth <bpkroth@gmail.com>]

Peter Hjalmarsson <xake@rymdraket.net> 2009-04-20 21:03:
> I realised earlier today that foldingathome (installed with the help of
> portage) had not started a new WU since 5 of april, and when I started
> to investigate I found out that the "cores" had problem running. 
> 
> cd /opt/foldingathome &&
> paxctl -c FahCore_*.exe &&
> paxctl -PEMrXS FahCore_*.exe
> 
> makes it work again.
> foldingathome has worked in the past without problems, and I do not
> really know what have changed more then some kernel-upgrades (but
> booting the last kept 2.6.27-hardened did not help either) and keeping
> the userland up to stable x86.
> What can I do to not have to do this dance?

It seems that you're already on your way to a better fix, but I've run
this from cron in the past to get around this problem:

# fixup fah files
*/10 * * * * root chpax -r /opt/foldingathome/client*/Fah*.exe > /dev/null 2>&1

Brian