Re: [Update REQ 5558]:

[junhe at flamingo.Stanford.EDU]

Hi Stuart,

    The /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files are in deed readable by the world
    on this machine.  Are there some other reasons that we can get this
    error message?

Thanks,
Junhe

> 
> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 17:26:31 -0500
> From: slevy
> Message-Id: <199509112226.RAA01353 at euclid.geom.umn.edu>
> To: software@geom
> Subject: Re:  [ REQ 5558]:
> 
> > dgl error (default init): default dglopen(canary:0,4) returned -13
> 
> We'd just heard from someone else with this problem.  They found that
> someone had changed the permissions on the (normally public)
> /etc/hosts file so that it couldn't be read by the world, and that caused
> this GL error.  If it's indeed unreadable for you -- or if /etc/resolv.conf
> is likewise unreadable -- try getting the system administrator to say, as root,
>    chmod a+r /etc/hosts  (or /etc/resolv.conf)
> 
> state: closed
> 
> 
>