From help-request at octave dot org Wed Sep 22 13:58:08 2004
Subject: Re: What does the exit command do?
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
CC: octave help mailing list <help at octave dot org>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:55:30 -0600

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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