PLUG-discuss digest, Vol 1 #2027 - 14 msgs

[Craig S.]

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> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:51:12 -0500
> From: George Toft <george@georgetoft.com>
> To: PLUG Discuss <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Calling all bigots
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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> My wife's shiny new computer, with Windows XP preloaded, had to
> be rebooted this weekend after an appalling 60 days of uptime.
> Look out Linux, it looks like Microsoft is on to something.  Now
> all I have to do is figure out how my son can play his games
> without being an administrator.
>
> George
>

Put the games in /bin or /usr/local/games

"man chmod" should give you the info you  need for getting other users to the files (generally the executable file).

then in your /home/whoever/games dir make a symbolic link to the game in /bin or /usr/local/games

I pretty much use /usr/local for games I want to be accessed across my LAN (when I finally configure it) but use /bin if you want to.
Some people put only system utilities in /usr/local and games and other stuff in /bin. Whatever floats your boat, your the admin.

Craig S.