On 8/7/09 1:56 PM, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > > what do you see when this fails? can you show us an actual > example of trying to run "pfexec <cmd>"? Examples include:
% pfexec gedit /var/share/lxde/openbox/menu.xml -> cannot save changes on file -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3.2K Aug 4 11:49:41 2009 menu.xml % pfexec R (binary) -> unable to install packages to a directory: drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 40 Aug 6 17:58:21 2009 library/ % pfexec pkgrm SUNWwbcor pkgrm: ERROR: You must be "root" for pkgrm to execute properly. > I thought I had a problem with profiles on my machine, but it > turns out I was trying to pfexec from a directory that was only > readable by me (not the super user), which caused problems for > the profile shell. Most of these directories are readable by root. More importantly, I have not changed chmod or chown any directories between upgrades and the problem is new. Aric
