F. Even - fbsd-questions wrote:
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:30, Robert Marella wrote:
Good Afternoon
At times when in a hurry or not thinking as fast as my fingers, I try
to run "portupgrade -s | grep OLD" from a regular user account instead
of "sudo portupgrade -s | grep OLD".
do you mean "portmanager -s | grep OLD" by any chance?
I would expect portupgrade to insult my intelligence and question my
heritage .... or is that question my intelligence and insult my
heritage. Well, it doesn't do either. It core dumps. This will happen
on more than one system running 6 Stable and the updated portmanager.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> pkg_info | grep portmanager
portmanager-0.4.1_4 FreeBSD installed ports status and safe update
utility
Thanks
Robert
Portmanager will only run as root, I'll make a note/bug to check
error handling when someone attempts to run it as a normal user.
Mike,
Please don't disable the ability to run this as a non-root user. I've
managed to get it to run by chowning it's config, files under /var/db
and the entire ports collection to an update user. Now I can run
portmanager -s and it will give me an accurate run-down of what
upgrades are needed. I can also then download updates as a restricted
user. Changing to root will allow me to update as I need to, and as
long as the src is cleaned up, no files owned by root are left behind
in the ports tree. This actually works quite nicely.
Thanks,
Frank
For the next few months I have no access to a FreeBSD system so won't be
changing anything. Portmanager has no internal mechanisms for checking
ownership, I think
that so long as whoever has write access to everything in
/usr/local/share/portmanager should be able to run it no problem. So if
you want to change who can run it besides
root just change the permisions of the files in that directory. I do
have a change at home that moves the data bases to /var/db/portmanager
so if that ever gets posted things
will change slightly, it may never be posted though if no one takes over
maintainership before I return.
-Mike
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