[ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Weiergräber , Oliver H .
Hello, version 6.2.0 of ccp4 has strange permissions set to several setup/configuration scripts which are read while sourcing ccp4.setup. For a long time, ccp4 packages have been distributed with some arbitrary file and directory ownerships which users are obviously supposed to edit to meet

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Andreas Förster
Dear Oliver and others, an alternative way of installing system-wide third party software is with a non-root account that is in the same group as all the users. Use that account to install software centrally and initialize in each user's .bashrc. (Root is used only for administrative tasks

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Charles Ballard
We are working to relax the permissions on the files to rwx r-x r-x Charles Ballard CCP4 On 19 Jul 2011, at 11:25, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Hello, version 6.2.0 of ccp4 has strange permissions set to several setup/configuration scripts which are read while sourcing ccp4.setup. For

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Chris Richardson
While we're on the subject of issues with the ccp4 6.20 distribution, I've had a problem with the Mac OS X package installer. It seems to be missing the ccp4i executable. Launching the application gives the following error: 19/07/2011 13:04:02 [0x0-0x269269].com.yourcompany.ccp4[17160]

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Dear all, ideally, permissions should be either rw-r--r-- (0644) or (for files that need to be executed as well as directories) rwxr-xr-x (0755) One quick fix: find . -type d -exec chmod -v 0755 {} ; find . -type f -exec chmod -v 0755 {} ; but that last command makes every single

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear all, or use a modified version of Clemens's commands for that: find . -perm 700 -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -perm 750 -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -perm 600 -exec chmod 644 {} \; find . -perm 640 -exec chmod 644 {} \; Best regards, Dirk. Am 19.07.11 14:34, schrieb Clemens Vonrhein:

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
set. Regards, Mitch From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dirk Kostrewa [kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 6:14 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

Re: [ccp4bb] Permissions and ownerships in ccp4 6.2.0

2011-07-19 Thread Pete Meyer
but that last command makes every single file executable, which is rather ugly (but doing a selective chmod 0755/0644 is a bit tricky I was wondering about having every file executable in the source distributions a while back, and came up with an quick way to make it less ugly (inline due to