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/games/nethack /var/lib/games/nethack/save chmod 775 /var/lib/games/nethack/save /var/lib/games/nethack/save ^^^^^ The marked section should be deleted. The postinst isn't fixing the perms on /var/lib/games/nethack, and it should. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .