[gentoo-user] Can't play games

[gentoo-user] Can't play games

[sdoma]

Hi again,

I've added some games to my system anr ran ``gpasswd -a frank games''.

I get "Permission denied" even for ``ls /usr/games''. Well trying to
start some game I get the same. Can anyone tell em what I'm missing?

Thanks
Frank


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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[Boris Fersing]

2006/8/24, sdoma <sdoma@karneval.cz>:
> Hi again,
>
> I've added some games to my system anr ran ``gpasswd -a frank games''.
>
> I get "Permission denied" even for ``ls /usr/games''. Well trying to
> start some game I get the same. Can anyone tell em what I'm missing?

Hi,

did you logout and log in after this command ?

Boris.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[brettholcomb]

Is your user a member or the games group?

> 
> From: sdoma <sdoma@karneval.cz>
> Date: 2006/08/24 Thu PM 12:48:02 EDT
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Can't play games
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I've added some games to my system anr ran ``gpasswd -a frank games''.
> 
> I get "Permission denied" even for ``ls /usr/games''. Well trying to
> start some game I get the same. Can anyone tell em what I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks
> Frank
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[sdoma]

Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as 
``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to logoff
completely (terminating X and logout).

Thanks
Frank


On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:05 +0200, Boris Fersing wrote:
> 2006/8/24, sdoma <sdoma@karneval.cz>:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I've added some games to my system anr ran ``gpasswd -a frank games''.
> >
> > I get "Permission denied" even for ``ls /usr/games''. Well trying to
> > start some game I get the same. Can anyone tell em what I'm missing?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> did you logout and log in after this command ?
> 
> Boris.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Frank
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 10:14 schrieb ext sdoma:

> Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as
> ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to logoff
> completely (terminating X and logout).

A login shell only means that it parses different rc files on startup, just 
like it would do when the user logged in.

Bye...

	Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[Peter Haworth]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:14:59 +0200, sdoma wrote:
> Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as
> ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to
> logoff completely (terminating X and logout).

A "login shell" is not a new login; it just means that as well as
reading .bashrc (or the equivalent for your shell), it also reads
.bash_profile, .bash_login and .profile when starting up, and reads
.bash_logout on exit.

To add groups to the currently running process requires root
privileges, even if the user is configured as a member of the new
group. The usual methods to achieve this are logging out and back in
again, or using newgrp (though this starts a new shell, and only
affects processes started from that shell).

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 10:44 schrieb ext Peter Haworth:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:14:59 +0200, sdoma wrote:
> > Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as
> > ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to
> > logoff completely (terminating X and logout).
>
> A "login shell" is not a new login; it just means that as well as
> reading .bashrc (or the equivalent for your shell), it also reads

Should be: ...instead of reading .bashrc (...), it reads...

In Gentoo, .bashrc is also read from login shells, because of

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

in .bash_profile.

Bye...

	Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play games

[Pillon Matteo]

2006/8/25, sdoma <sdoma@karneval.cz>:
> Well, that was it. I'm quite surprised because I start xterm as
> ``xterm -ls'', which should provide a login shell but I had to logoff
> completely (terminating X and logout).

Next time try with newgrp(1). ;-)

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