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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:9719 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2179 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!ux1.lmu.edu!cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com!cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com!not-for-mail From: root@cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Games not saving? (Bus Error) Date: 5 Apr 1994 20:52:13 -0500 Organization: Dave`s House in Omaha Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2nt4kd$m1@cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com> References: <2nji7s$4no@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com In article <2nji7s$4no@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>, Vax <vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> wrote: >The adventure-type games rarely save properly. Either hack or rogue >gets a ``Bus Error'' shortly after getting a lock. >Larn's scoreboard doesn't work. > In the early days of NetBSD/FreeBSD there were problems with the games breaking in strange and wonderful ways. MOst of these problems have been fixed in recent releases of the two systems. How old are your games/how old is your system? That will probably help narrow the problem down considerably. >At first, a few of these problems were due to permissions in /var/games or >whatever. However, I've since changed them to bin/kmem, which is what ``dm'' >is SGID/SUID to. > >Are these games actually buggy, or am I missing, say, a directory I need >to mkdir manually?