From: Jon Rust Date: 2008-04-10T08:54:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Building ruby Vidar Hokstad wrote: > It may be a path issue. "strace" in a shell is your friend. Run > "strace ruby yourscript.rb 2>&1 | grep socket | more". It'll how you Glorious. Thanks for the tip/reminder. (slapping forehead) The socket.so file was installed mode 640. Doh! stat64("/usr/local/ruby186/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/socket.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0750, st_size=84340, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/local/ruby186/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/socket.so", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) Thanks, jon -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.