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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:28:37 -0800
From:      Shannon -jj Behrens <jj@nttmcl.com>
To:        Dave <mudman@metafocus.net>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Java as Root?
Message-ID:  <20030318192837.GA48173@alicia.nttmcl.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0303181116390.10418-100000@metafocus.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0303181116390.10418-100000@metafocus.net>

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There's a PR for this.  There's a kernel patch to fix it.  However, if I 
remember right, it's easiest to just make sure you use linux_base-6 instead
of 7.  Of course, I'm probably getting bugs confused :-/

Best Regards,
-jj

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:21:44AM -0800, Dave wrote:
> I downloaded JDK 1.4 off of the sunjava website.  I had chosen the linux
> version and my FreeBSD box is all ready to go for linux emu.
> 
> I run java or javac, and I get a core.  I was just about to delete them (I
> had logged in root now to do the task) and I thought I would invoke them
> one more time, and to my surprise they executed just fine.  Surely it must
> of been a path criss-cross I thought, but I checked it and I checked it
> twice, and sure enough, my new JDK 1.4 won't let me run it except as root.
> I even managed to compile a few test files.
> 
> Naturally, I'm not about to go developing in root so I decided I'll just
> use my wife's windows machine for the time being until I can get a lower
> privileged account to work.
> 
> What is up with this???  Has anyone else noticed?

-- 
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