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Re: ... is not writable by you
- To: John Fortin <fortinj@ibm.net>
- Subject: Re: ... is not writable by you
- From: Sebastien Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:05:18 +0100
- Cc: Dennis Newbold <dnewbold@blackberry.ivs.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
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At 14:07 25/02/99 -0500, John Fortin wrote:
>What is you userid though. If the files were created by you and you are part
>of the administrator group, the files are OWNED by the administrator ID. If
>your userid is not the administrator then you only have read/execute rights.
As seen in my example, the prompt PS1 shows that *I* am the administrator,
it's a standalone workstation which belongs to me :)
It might be related to Perl anyway, because the install script is written
in Perl. Here is the problematic part :
if ($d_dosuid && $>) { die "You must run as root to install suidperl\n"; }
$installbin || die "No installbin directory in config.sh\n";
-d $installbin || mkpath($installbin, 1, 0777);
-d $installbin || $nonono || die "$installbin is not a directory\n";
-w $installbin || $nonono || die "$installbin is not writable by you\n"
unless $installbin =~ m#^/afs/# || $nonono;
I removed the -w line, and it works. But I'd like to *understand* the problem.
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Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/
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