From help-request at octave dot org Wed Sep 22 14:34:51 2004
Subject: Re: What does the exit command do?
From: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
Cc: octave help mailing list <help at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:33:00 -0700

I'm calling Octave with the command 'octave -qH myfunction.m' so it
should't need to write to .octave-hist on exit.

I get the error with or without the -H option.


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:55:30 -0600, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dmitri at unm dot edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Keith Goodman wrote:
> > If I become another user, say www-data, I get an error when I exit Octave:
> >
> >
> >>exit
> >
> > error: Permission denied
> >
> > What does the exit command do? Does it write to a file?
> >
> 
> It writes $HOME/.octave_hist. Does www-data have a $HOME?
> If not (I think) it will write to /.octave_hist
> which is probably not allowed...
> 
> Dmitri.
> 
>



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