hi,

Doctor John wrote:
> BTW I have a feeling (tho' I could be wrong) that the docs say that the use
> of povray.conf has not yet been implemented under Linux. Whatever, my
> ..povray.conf is basically totally non-restrictive - I've been doing a lot of
> shell-outs recently.

you are right. ;)

i was just wondering which one was wrong;
povray complaining about i/o restrictions, or the docs.
my feeling is that the docs are not up to date.

however, you are saying that the settings in povray.conf
are working for you... but i am just trying to set up
a very simple config, and it doesn't work at all:

~/.povray.conf
---
[File I/O Security]
none

[Shellout Security]
allowed

[Current Directory Read/Write]
allowed
---

(/usr/local/etc/povray.conf is the same)

povray is run with

   +Lmy_source_dir +Imy_source_dir/test.ini

it seems that /usr/local/etc/povray.ini is read, but
still, povray refuses to load any other source file!

---
   Input file: my_source_dir/test.ini (compatible to version 3.5)
[...]
   Library paths: /usr/local/share/povray-3.5
     /usr/local/share/povray-3.5/include my_source_dir
[...]
Parsing...Scene File Parser Initialization Error:
Reading from my_source_dir/test.ini is not permitted.
Check the configuration in /usr/local/etc/povray.conf
or ~/.povray.conf.
---

BTW, how can povray tell that the file is "compatible"
to anything if it cannot even read it??

(needless to say that i am the owner of the file, and
all the files are readable...)


could someone please confirm that this configuration
would actually work, so i can go and look for other
reasons...?


thanks in advance,

g.


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