Re: quitting Octave: permission denied

[etienne]

  Hi Matthias,

this happens (at least) when the history file ~/.octave_hist (or your home
directory) is not writable.

  Hth,

  Etienne

On Mon, January 8, 2007 12:41 pm, Matthias Brennwald said:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm on a Mac (an oldish Quicksilver Dual-G4 with Mac OS X 10.4.8). I
> have both Octave 2.1.72 from Fink and Octave 2.9.9 compiled from
> sources (following Thomas Treichls instructions). When I quit Octave,
> I get an error 'permission denied':
>
> octave:1> quit
> error: Permission denied
>
> This happens with both versions of Octave.
>
> Any ideas what might be wrong? The same problem does not occur on
> another Mac with the same OS and Octave versions.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias
>
>
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