From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 9 10:17:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE7137B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B87D43E4A for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:17:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from manek@ecst.csuchico.edu) Received: from user-2ivfm5t.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.216.189] helo=rover) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18LSSr-0001CL-00; Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:17:09 -0800 From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: "Julian C. Dunn" Cc: Subject: RE: Non-root updating & building Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:17:08 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <1039456249.25104.93.camel@jedi.office.verticalscope.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Julian C. Dunn [mailto:jdunn@verticalscope.com] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:51 AM > To: Sameer R. Manek > Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Non-root updating & building > > > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 12:31, Sameer R. Manek wrote: > > In addition to what the other 2 posters said, in order to update, the > > non-root user has to be able to write to /var/sup. > > /usr/sup you mean ...? Yes, that's true, and I forgot to mention that as > well. > Sorry you're right. /usr/sup, that's what I get when the fingers do the typing and not the brain. Sameer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message