POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Possible permission problem. : Re: Possible permission problem. Server Time
26 Jun 2024 02:55:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Possible permission problem.  
From: stephen parkinson
Date: 9 Nov 2005 01:17:34
Message: <4371947e@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> I've got a problem where when I run as root:
> 
> povray  zini.ini,
> where the zini.ini includes among other things a line of:
> 
> Output_File_Name=/home/greg/images/
> 
> It runs fine.
> 
> But when I run it as non-root, I get 
> "Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Cannot open input file."
> 
> And I have a foggy memory if it once complaining about not being able to
> open output file. (just not this time as I went to type).
> 
> Of course, i've done a lot of things as root on this kanotix linux box. How
> do I fix this prob?

ls -ld /home/greg   ?


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