I'd say just do /sw/fink : my /sw directory is root-owned. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > This must be my problem. My permissions and ownership are: > > drwxr-xr-x 13 root admin 398 Nov 4 15:52 fink > -rw-r--r-- 1 hester admin 1032 Jan 10 14:13 ChangeLog > > I wonder why fink is owned by root. Would it work if I do a "chown hester" > for the entire /sw directory? > > Thanks. > > Jeff > > > > ---------- > > From: Alexander Hansen > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:32 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate" > > > > The original Changelog file is /sw/fink/Changelog, and for some reason you > > aren't able to create .new.Changelog . > > > > What do your permissions and ownership look like for /sw/fink and > > /sw/fink/Changelog? For comparison mine are: > > > > drwxr-xr-x 13 hansen admin 398 Feb 21 10:54 fink > > -rw-r--r-- 1 hansen admin 1163 Jan 15 17:10 ChangeLog > > > > -- > > Alexander K. Hansen > > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > > Levitated Dipole Experiment > > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > > > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > > > The other lines were more of what I included in the e-mail. There were > > no > > > errors on any of those lines. > > > > > > I also tried running "sudo fink selfupdate" from the /sw directory > > instead > > > of my home directory and I get the same problem. I've got over 500 MB > > free > > > on my partition (I only use one). Alexander (thanks for the reply, btw) > > > suggested I just remove the offending file, in my case .new.ChangeLog. > > > Problem is that it's nowhere to be found. I did a "find /sw -name > > > .new.ChangeLog" and it didn't show up anything. I also did a find from > > main > > > (/) and didn't find the file. Strange. This is my first problem with > > fink > > > being a user for many months now. Odd. Any more stabs, ideas, > > suggestions, > > > ...? :-) > > > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > ---------- > > > > From: Chris Devers > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:25 AM > > > > To: Hester, Jeffrey W. > > > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Can't "fink selfupdate" > > > > > > > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > > > > > > > > > [snip snip snip] > > > > > ? dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-2.4.3-1.patch > > > > > > > > > > --other dists removed by me in this e-mail-- > > > > > > > > ...did any of the snipped lines look like errors, or was it more stuff > > > > like what you included? > > > > > > > > > cvs server: Updating . > > > > > P ChangeLog > > > > > cvs [update aborted]: cannot open .new.ChangeLog: Permission denied > > > > > ### su failed, exit code 1 > > > > > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > > > > > [pcwrplap:~] hester% > > > > > > > > Hmm. You're running this from your home directory? What are the > > > > permissions on it <stab in the dark />? Is there much space left on > > the > > > > partition that contains your home directory <stab II />? Can you find > > a > > > > file -- possibly in your home directory, maybe /sw/fink/dists or /sw > > or > > > > something like that -- named .new.Changelog, and if you can (I see no > > such > > > > file on my system so far...) what are it's permissions <stab III />? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Fink-users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
