Re: [Fink-users] rsync failure? su failure?

2008-08-25 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Aug 24, 2008, at 11:15 PM, James McKenzie wrote: Neil Tiffin wrote: I have the following permissions for /sw/fink: drwxr-xr-x 5 hansen admin 476 2008-08-17 22:01 fink Thanks, I changed my permissions recursively to root:admin and everything started working again (Mac OS X

[Fink-users] rsync failure? su failure?

2008-08-24 Thread Neil Tiffin
My fink installation has been messed up for some time. Something like the following happens no matter what mirrors I select. I could not find anything on this in the first few pages of google or any explanation of the correct permissions in the docs. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: [Fink-users] rsync failure? su failure?

2008-08-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Aug 24, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote: My fink installation has been messed up for some time. Something like the following happens no matter what mirrors I select. I could not find anything on this in the first few pages of google or any explanation of the correct permissions in

Re: [Fink-users] rsync failure? su failure?

2008-08-24 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Aug 24, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Aug 24, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote: My fink installation has been messed up for some time. Something like the following happens no matter what mirrors I select. I could not find anything on this in the first few pages

Re: [Fink-users] rsync failure? su failure?

2008-08-24 Thread James McKenzie
Neil Tiffin wrote: I have the following permissions for /sw/fink: drwxr-xr-x 5 hansen admin 476 2008-08-17 22:01 fink Thanks, I changed my permissions recursively to root:admin and everything started working again (Mac OS X 10.5.4) Neil This is BAD security practice