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Solved, thanks to Araban, duckweed, and xed_over (in order of appearance); see below.

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Help. Please.


I think I’ve read all those threads about Java/CGoban and the missing stone click sound. On my iMac w/ OS X 10.7.5 the sound is also missing since I have installed the latest Java from java.com. Whenever somebody mentioned OS X in those threads, the reply was something along the line “it should be something like XYZ” and then a description of how to solve this on … Windows, once or twice for Linux. I don’t even seem to have those folders that are being mentioned there … hasn’t been much trouble for me, because in the past year or so I’ve rarely played online, and if I did, I did so on Kaya.gs or DGS, and I use CGoban only to review my DGS games.

But now, in a few days, there’s a German Internet tournament on KGS, and I’m also playing there, and now I’m a bit worried about missing something when time gets short (I don’t plan to let it get short but, well, you know …).

So, if anybody has been successful in recovering the click sound and would share how they did it, I’d be overly glad. You really want to see me glad, don’t you?

I’m not afraid of using the Terminal, but you’d have to tell me explicitly what to do and not just “you simply have to outgrabe the waysock, and then you tulver the borogove, finally you need to somforbe lorem ipsum dolorem.”


Thanks in advance,

Tom

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sudo java -jar cgoban.jar

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THANK YOU, Araban that was verbose enough

What I did:

- download the linked file
- put it where I wanted it to reside
- substitute the full pathname for “cgoban.jar” in the above code


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And thanks to duckweed and xed_over I can now skip the dreaded sudo.

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What to enter in Terminal: (Skip full pathname if entering this while in the folder where cgoban.jar resides.)

Now how to make this clickable (save file with shebang header and do something w/ chmod I guess) and how to make this skip sudo password entry (prolly have to edit sudoers) … can’t seem to remember any of the scripting of those NeXTstep times …

Anyway, I’m a happy camper now, thanks again!


Greetings, Tom

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You really do not want to run the java virtual machine as a superuser.

If the jvm is exploited, it will have superuser access to your machine.

So, what does this mean exactly? Does it mean that IF my version of CGoban is somehow hacked it may be used to do bad things? Then I just need to make sure that my CGoban is okay, or?

What are the alternatives?

Thanks in advance, Tom

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It means that where ever you downloaded your cgoban.jar from, if someone at that location hacked/recompiled it to do bad things to your system, then running it as root (sudo) will allow them the needed access to do so.

not a big worry, in my mind for this app.

still, you shouldn't need to use 'sudo'. I don't, and it works just fine.

Thank you, duckweed and xed_over, this is comforting, I’ve updated my above post/comment to reflect this

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