mol must be setuid root to run?

Adam Done mlist at donestudios.com
Tue Nov 2 01:44:48 MST 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 00:34, Adam Done wrote:
> Now another question which has been bothering me for a long time as
> well.  Every time I upgrade mol and in the terminal I get this.
> 
> $  startmol -X
> Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70 [Sep 11 2004 22:43]
> Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Samuel Rydh
> Starting MOL session 1
> Mac-on-Linux must be setuid root!
> 
> 
> So as root I go and setuid mol and startmol in /usr/lib/mol/bin and then
> I  can startmol -X just fine BUT when the next upgrade comes along I
> have to start the whole procedure over again.  Is there a way I don't
> have to go through this on every mol upgrade?
without having to do a 
sudo startmol -X
in the terminal?



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