> >Check that /dev/fd is a symbolic link to /proc/self/fd. Check that >/proc is mounted. > >The permissions to /proc are determined by the kernel, so there's >really no way that they could be wrong. > > > >Guy > the links were okay, the problem is elsewhere. if i telnet into the machine and log in as alex gawk works fine. what i usually do is to rlogin from an sgi to a different account and then su to alex. under these circumstances gawk fails with permission denied. i have no idea if this is a bug or not.
--alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
