On 7/31/05, Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Matthew Peltzer wrote: > > > What are the 'correct' owner and permissions for /sw? > > I've got root:admin for /sw and its contents, except that /sw/fink is > owned by my user. > > > > > I recently backed-up /sw, then formatted the source drive, then > > reinstalled 10.4 & restored /sw. I then found mysqld would not start. > > After messing with a bunch of stuff I found that `sudo chown -R > > goose:admin /sw` allowed mysqld to run, but now I'm concerned about > > the state of /sw. > > > > Does this need fixing? Will fink fix its self? Is there a script I > > can run to verify permissions (similar to what Disk Utility does for > > system files)? > > > > -- > > -- Matthew Peltzer > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This may not need fixing, as such. Since fink runs as root it can > access anything. You may want to do a 'sudo chown -R root:admin /sw' > if you have any problems.
done, but for the record, it looks like /sw/var/mysql needs to be owned by mysql:admin too: `sudo chown -R mysql:admin /sw/var/mysql`. -- -- Matthew Peltzer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
