From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 10 10: 1:41 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 B3B2437B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:01:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E826343E4A for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:01:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gBAI1ZdK038601; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gBAI1Z68027886; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:01:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:01:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200212101801.gBAI1Z68027886@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: manek@ecst.csuchico.edu Subject: Re: Non-root updating & building In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA 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 In article , 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. > > Don't know why this has to be the case, perhaps John can answer why, or > perhaps change that in future versions. Others already pointed out that it's /usr/sup unless you have a custom "base" setting in your supfile. To answer your question, that's where CVSup records its status. So whoever runs CVSup has to be able to write there. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message