On 12/4/13 11:38 PM, Mark D. McKean wrote: > Out of curiosity, I installed "tornado" today, and when I tried to run it, > bash told me I didn't have permission. The permissions and ownership > post-install appear as: > > ---x--S--x games games > > (Oddly, Path Finder shows the permissions as ---s--S--s (101) instead of > ---x--S--x. PF's Effective Permissions table shows that I should be able to > execute it, as it is set to other-executable.) > > I checked the install script in the .info file, and it indeed does explicitly > chown it to games/games and chmod to 2101. This is different from pretty much > everything else in /sw/bin, which are all set to root/admin and 755 > (-rwxr-xr-x or lrwxr-xr-x). > > So my question is: Is there a specific reason this is set up with this > ownership and permissions? I'd guess that my inability to run the file is due > to it not being other-readable, but that's just a guess--I'm still relatively > green on Unix, and there's a lot of subtleties I don't get yet. Would it > cause any problems if I chown'ed it to root/admin and chmod'ed it to 755, > matching everything else fink has installed? > > Mark D. McKean > qpa...@quantumpanda.com > >
It works here on 10.9. I'm guessing that the package actually needs those particular ownership/permissions set, or the .info file wouldn't do that. We normally try to avoid that sort of thing. My guess is that you missed the message from the "passwd-games" package which is a dependency of tornado, and you don't have a games user/group: Setting up passwd-games (20131113-1) ... ... You may experience problems later on if you don't add this information. Add the entry now? [Y/n] Use "fink reinstall passwd-games" and make sure to install the games user. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
