Hi Mark! On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I changed my umask for root to 077. I'm not certain if that was
> wise.
I can have advantages. If you know what you're doing I see no problem.
> I'm also not certain if it's the cause of my headache with my
> attempt to install StarOffice.
>
> I do a net installation and am able to install as root, but I can't
> install as a normal user. It turns out that the permissions on the
> SO directories are whacked. I can't get into most of them as a
> normal user.
Perhaps you don't know about chmod. it allows you to change file
permissions. have a look at the manpage and/or the info pages.
You might want to try to fix the permissions of you SOffice install:
in /usr/local as root assuming the StarOffice net stuff is located there:
chmod -R go+r SOffice
find SOffice -perm -100 -exec chmod go+x {} \;
regards
Peter Palfrader
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