Simon Bennett (simonb++at++wormald.com.au)
Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:41:41 +1111 (EST)
> Rob Jenkins writes
> > Yikes :-)
-- snip --
>
> In detail, this is the problem: I do dynamic simulation...that is I develope
> and implement involved algorithms to simulate articulated mechanisms (like
-- snip --
> but, in retrospect, it is a waste of time because it runs fine with HOME set
> to my account on the machine in question.
>
> Answers to the suggestions:
> - I haven't tried par yet
> - `limit` shows nothing different
> - both accounts are on (different) XFS disks
> - there is no script - the executable is invoked directly from the command
>
> We've also been through environment variables in greate detail....nothing is
> obviously wrong though.
Except the behaviour is different if $HOME is changed?
Does the executable work for you if you change the setting of $HOME to
somewhere else?
> I don't think this should be happening....It has me VERY worried because it
> means that my executable is not portable.
> Yikes is right, or ACK!
You're not looking for anything in relation to HOME in the executable
somewhere?
The executable isn't suid <your-id> is it?
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Simon Bennett simonb++at++wormald.com.au
Wormald Technology Advanced Systems Engineering Ph: +61 2 9981 0669
"Good judgement is the result of experience.
Experience is the result of poor judgement"
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