Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:10:37 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Permission errors! Most odd. Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030724081012.011c06d0@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <44he5csy7p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <001f01c35027$a09853f0$c366b38e@kthx> <001f01c35027$a09853f0$c366b38e@kthx>
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or use the p option to extract with the same permissions. At 05:57 PM 7/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: >"Brad" <brad@perfectcircle.ca> writes: > > > I've been experiencing permission errors with make > > intermittently. It's happening with quite a few users on the box but > > it's just random. It's never a certain application or a certain > > user/group so it's been very hard to pinpoint what the problem is, > > hence why I'm posting here. > > > > What is happening is basically a user will untar a file and type > > "make" after a ./configure and get "make: Permission denied". When I > > first encountered this I believe I chmod -R 777 * in the directory > > that the file was untared in and that worked for me, but for some of > > my users who are less experienced with freeBSD won't know how and > > don't know how to resolve this and it shouldn't be happening in the > > first place. Other users say they have gotten the error and simply > > logged out and back in and resolved it. > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it? > >tar(1) stores permissions as well as the files themselves. By >default, it doesn't seem (according to a quick manual check I just >did) to try to recreate those permissions when it extracts the files; >it uses the umask instead. So make sure that the users have a >reasonable umask by default. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone
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