From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 11:19: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from school.cs.indiana.edu (school.cs.indiana.edu [129.79.252.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C805015158 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jiachen@cs.indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jiachen@localhost) by school.cs.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/IUCS_2.28) with ESMTP id NAA06591; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:16:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: school.cs.indiana.edu: jiachen owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:16:47 -0500 (EST) From: Jia-Huang Chen To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Mergemaster In-Reply-To: <28658.939203754@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 06 Oct 1999 02:44:31 EST, Jia-Huang Chen wrote: > > > *** The directory specified for the temporary root environment, > > /var/tmp/temproot, exists. This can be a security risk if untrusted > > users have access to the system. > > > > Use 'd' to delete the old /var/tmp/temproot and continue > > Use 't' to select a new temporary root directory > > Use 'e' to exit mergemaster > > If I were you, I'd choose 'd' here. > > > *** FATAL ERROR: Cannot 'cd' to /usr/src/etc and install files to the > > temproot environment > > If choosing 'd' to delete /var/tmp/temproot doesn't help, check the > permissions on your /usr/src/etc and /var/tmp directories. I tried and unfortunately it still doesn's work. They are the permissions of my directories. Anything wrong ? Thanks, Jia ---------------------------------------------------------- [root@russell-paul:/var/tmp] # ls -la total 8 drwxrwxrwt 4 root wheel 512 Oct 6 12:50 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 Oct 4 18:25 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 12:50 temproot drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Sep 28 23:09 vi.recover [root@nugget:/usr/src] # ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Oct 6 01:36 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Oct 5 00:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 01:36 etc drwxr-xr-x 39 root wheel 1024 Oct 4 18:25 sys ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message