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Jeff wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:41:03 +0000, Suddn wrote:
> 
>> I just setup Quake 3 on my Linux box after not playing it for a LONG
>> time.  I upgraded to the newest point release and discovered a thing
>> called punkbuster.
>> 
>> The problem is that it is disabled by default and unless I run Quake 3 as
>> the root user I can't enable it.
>> 
>> It sounds like a permission thing to me.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
> If you have permissions set correctly as mentioned previously, and are
> using the ~/.q3a directory for each user, take a look at the below url on
> the punkbuster forums. Problems with the pbcl.so file getting hosed
> joining a server prevents PB from getting enabled, even if set from the
> command line or autoexec.cfg on the next connection. I manually downloaded
> an update of the latest version of
> PB, stuck it in a separate folder, and just added  "cp
> /otherfolder/pb/pbcl.so
> .q3a/pb"  to the beginning of my q3-run script, which simply copies the
> good file over the one that gets hosed in your ~/.q3a directory. Take a
> look inside of ~/.q3a/pb and see if the pbcl.so file is now 0 bytes, it
> should be 596.7 KB.
> 
> 
http://forum.evenbalance.com/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=32&t=1694&s=5b5ea38548f2f1a50b1e1744f3f274fb
> 
> copy and paste above url if it breaks....
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Impact

Thanks that was it.  My ~/.q3a/pb/pbcl.so file had a size of zero so I 
deleted it.  When I started quake3 again it fixed itself.

Thanks!