In article <409b7db5$1@news.povray.org> , Marton Fabo <mor### [at] eikbmehu> 
wrote:

> Yes. And what good is it if I don't have the privilege to install it
> where it's due, and thus povray thinks the list of permitted paths is
> empty (which I'm free to constrain further through user-specific
> configfiles)?

What makes you believe this?  You just got this idea and now pretend that it
must be correct, ignoring the advice you had been given, which was to copy
the configuration file where it belongs.  Now, where could that be given
Christoph already acknowledged you are not root? - Your home dir perhaps???

    Thorsten


PS: Please get you timezone and/or clock fixed!

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"Marton Fabo" <mor### [at] eikbmehu> wrote in message
news:409bb3fa$1@news.povray.org...
> Christoph Hormann wrote:
> > Read what i wrote, you can simply copy the povray.conf in the package at
> > the appropriate place and it will work.  I never said you should use the
> > install script.
>
> Please read the whole thread before being so smart. I already mentioned
> that I have no root privileges on the machine in question, so I can't in
> any way install a config file to /usr/local/etc, where povray looks for
> it. I don't give a sh*t about the install script.
>
> mortee

hi.

from what I gather, he is saying that you should take the conf file that
comes with the distribution, and place that in your home directory, and name
it appropriately. that is $HOME/.povray.conf

also from previous threads, I gather that swearing, even using *'s in place
of letters, is frowned upon. i personally could give a rats "you know
what"... but just fair warning ;)

-r

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> What makes you believe this?  You just got this idea and now pretend that it
> must be correct, ignoring the advice you had been given, which was to copy
> the configuration file where it belongs.  Now, where could that be given
> Christoph already acknowledged you are not root? - Your home dir perhaps???
> 
>     Thorsten

Sorry, you are both right. I got way too nervous because I have a short 
deadline with a task involving POV-Ray, and I'd really have better 
things to do than to fight with it on config files and path permissions. 
Again, sorry.

> PS: Please get you timezone and/or clock fixed!

Yea, I noticed that one in the meantime. Actually, the posts with wrong 
timestamps were not sent from my machine, but from a crappy university 
box which seems to have its clock set wrong. I haven't noticed it in time.

mortee

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Marton Fabo <mor### [at] eikbmehu> wrote:
> Please read the whole thread before being so smart. I already mentioned 
> that I have no root privileges on the machine in question

  I didn't know you need root privileges to copy a file named povray.conf
to ~/.povray.conf

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