On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 10:12:55PM +0000, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > When running "gs" as user, I receive the following error message: > > SVGALIB -- Cannot get I/O permissions. > > How can I solve this?
You have to set the suid bit (It's a security hole, your user could get root rights if there's a problem in svgalib!). chmod +s /usr/bin/gs (or with suid-register if installed) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09