William Sherman -Visualization (wsherman++at++ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:17:54 -0600 (CST)
Thanks everyone for the advice. I use a moderately complicated .cmb file,
and I didn't think setmon would work. And I tried (or believe I tried)
a few of the other suggestions. Namely, I set ircombine itself to be
setuid-root, and that didn't work. Then I wrote a C program to
make a system call with the proper ircombine command strings, compiled
it, made it setuid-root, and that didn't work. So we ended up with
a couple of shell scripts that had to be run as root. It seemed like
ircombine itself would refuse to run unless root was actually logged on.
Before responding though, I did a sanity check, and ... it worked!
I guess my sanity is questionable. Specifically, the C program that
wouldn't run before now works, and I made a new version with fancy
options, and that now works.
Now, it had been a few months before I had done all the work, and a
new project was coming up that would require more ir-mode switching,
so I was hoping there would be a patch or something. Apparently there
is, and something that we installed on the machine between last
April and today must have fixed it.
Either that or I'm crazy.
Bill -- of course, those aren't mutually exclusive either
So thanks again everyone, you're advice worked -- even though I didn't
think some of it would.
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