Just today I had a similar problem. The root umask is usually set to
something restrictive. You will need to get the appropriate directories
to be rwx to everyone. Since this might be a system security nightmare,
you might want to add yourself to group 'wheel' or whatever root was
using when creating the grass directories.
If I understand what is going on, the real problem is that grass wants
write permission to directories under /usr/local/grass5. Ideally the
lock files would instead be in the user home directory, maybe in some
place like ~/.grass, as with Netscape and other utilities. This
might (again, if I understand enough grass) make the installation more
secure. And there seem to be a number of lock and other little files
floating about.
Thanks BTW for working on a new X24 driver. The current version is a bit
flakey on my linux 2.0.36 X11R6 box.
Hi,
I think you are not able to run grass as a regular user. I guess you
do not have access to the /usr/local/ directory on your machines.On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, R. Joe Brandon wrote:
> After loading the grass5.02binaries on my MkLinux system (Based on
> RedHat5.x) I received the following error when I tried to exceute the
> program (as a user, not as root)
>
> /usr/local/grass5/etc/GIS.sh: /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock: cannot execute
> binary file Unable to properly access /home/grass/.gislock
> Please notify system personel.
>
> I have checked permissions on the offending files but all checks out ok.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> R. Joe
>
> mailto:rjoe_brandon@iname.com
> http://www.cast.uark.edu/~rjoe
Adios,
Chris
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