On Monday 05 August 2013 15:34:21 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 05/08/2013 13:18, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote: > > When I am running the ioquake3 1.36 server on linux at booting, I don't > > want to run it as the "root" user because it is not safe. I prefer to use > > an "ioq3" user dedicated to this task. > > This is what happened when I run the server as the "ioq3" user using sudo > > as "root": # sudo -u ioq3 /usr/games/quake3/ioq3ded.i386 +exec > > yugiohjcj.config ioq3 1.36 linux-i386 Sep 23 2012 > > ----- FS_Startup ----- > > Unable to create directory "/root/.q3a", error is Permission denied(13) > > > > ... > > > > We can see that the program wants to write into the "/root" directory. > > The "ioq3" user has not the permission to write to this directory. > > What is the best strategy to correct this behavior ? > > The problem is that sudo does not update the HOME environment variable > by default. Run sudo with the -H flag and you should be fine.
Still, ioq3 shouldn't segfault in that case. -- Thilo Schulz
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