Martin has gotten to the crux of the matter. As I have already replied, my permissions were wrong. Early on, I did sudo fink and all the permissions are root. I have been changing permissions and finding many problems go away.
The members of this list have been very prompt and helpful and it is appreciated. -Roy M. At 11:45 PM +0200 4/18/02, Martin Costabel wrote: >Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> 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 > >It would be interesting to see what Roy has there. I suspect there is a >small lesson there to learn. > >> > The error I get when I run sudo fink selfupdate-cvs is: > >You don't need to sudo fink. Fink runs itself through sudo already. > >> > I can not find a file by that name that has a permission to deny, and >> > the command has been executed with sudo. > >Too much sudo can be harmful (TM). > >In fact, if you do things like "sudo cvs update" or some file copying >using sudo, you get files owned by "root", where then you yourself don't >have write permission. OTOH, fink selfupdate (even if you run it as >"sudo fink selfupdate-cvs" is usually configured to run as yourself, and >it assumes that the whole /sw/fink/ directory tree is writable by >yourself. You end up with conflicts as you observed. > >-- >Martin -- Roy Mendelssohn Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
