Problems startmol Debian 0.9.68 on G3 Pismo (tun.o missing)

[David Bélanger]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:49:00PM +0100, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Niklaus Giger writes:
> 
> > The kernel is also from the Debian package.
> 
> The latest version of this package was still built with gcc 2.95.
> 
> > I got the latest mol-sources (0.6.69 from rsync.penguinppc.org::mol),
> 
> Are there any improvements over the released version that would
> justify an upgrade of the Debian package?
> 
> > recompiled everything (using gcc-2.95.4 2001100), changed 
> > allow_kver_mismatch: from yes to no, started mol and it works now fine.
> 
> > Did you compile the mol package with the new default gcc 3.2?
> 
> Sure.  This is what we call the gcc 3.2 transition.  BTW, I ran into
> your very problem during this transition and documented this *quite*
> clearly in the Debian changelog.  If you are running unstable, I
> strongly recommend that you install apt-listchanges, so changelogs are
> shown to you on upgrades.
> 
> > BTW, why do you don't add a option to the mol package to install
> > startmol as setuid root?
> 
> Because startmol is a shell script, and suid bits are ignored on shell
> scripts.
> 
> > I want that everybody of my family can run mol once he/she has
> > logged in.
> 
> Use sudo or somesuch.
> 

There is also a program called super.  By its description it says it can
execute scripts as if they were root.

David


> Regards, Jens.
> 
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