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From: chuckg@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Chuck G.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help compiling tcx (nonroot problems)
Date: 15 Jun 1994 21:07:24 -0500
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Please help me persuade tcx to let mortal (non-root) users execute
tcx'd programs. I am running FreeBSD-1.1-Release on a FrankenClone (TM)
that has 8Mb, 486 DLC, and Acer BIOS.

I compile tcx as root. Works great for root. It fails for normal users
with errors like Operation Not Permitted or Permission Denied. I
configured it to uncompress into /usr/tmp/exec since I figured that
ordinary users would be unable to uncompress in place. I'm pretty sure
I have overlooked something obvious. (The dumb mistakes are the hardest
to spot!)
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