Re: my Linux users can't save

Darryl Gerbrandt wrote:



Where is Angband looking to save the files? 


Never mind, I found that. It was actually in ~/.angband
I chmodded that folder, my users can save games now.

But I still can't save to the scores file! :(

Where do they hide that?


On Gentoo (I just emerged angband tonight) it's under:

coppermine apex # pwd
/usr/share/games/angband/lib/apex
coppermine apex # ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw----  1 root games 0 Oct 28 15:07 delete.me
-rw-rw----  1 root games 0 Oct 28 15:07 scores.raw
coppermine apex #

It's the only scores file on the system at the moment (and its location matches the Win32 score file).

The individual save files are in lib/save and are working properly on my copy of Gentoo (Angband 3.0.5 package). Make sure to add individual users to the "games" group.

coppermine lib # pwd
/usr/share/games/angband/lib
coppermine lib # ls -l
total 48
drwxrwx---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 apex
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 bone
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 data
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 edit
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 file
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 help
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 info
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 17:42 pref
drwxrwx---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 18:29 save
drwxr-x---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 script
drwxrwx---  2 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 user
drwxr-x---  3 root games 4096 Oct 28 15:07 xtra
coppermine lib #

I'm not sure why scores.raw is not being updated. You can see that apex has the same directory attributes as the save folder. Here's permissions for individual files in the save folder.

coppermine save # pwd
/usr/share/games/angband/lib/save
coppermine save # ls -l
total 88
-rw-r--r--  1 wuphon users 45844 Oct 28 17:29 1000.Wuphon
-rw-r--r--  1 fred   users 37590 Oct 28 18:29 1002.Fred
----rw----  1 root   games     0 Oct 28 15:07 delete.me
coppermine save #

User is rw, group is read-only, other (world) is read-only.

....

If I remove the scores.raw file from lib/apex, the file gets created by the next user to exit Angband (thus updating the score file). However, it's always created as a zero-byte file.
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