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? -- Hacker is to software engineer as Climbing Mt. Everest is to building a Denny's there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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