From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 17:43:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00364 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA00359 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA21541; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:45:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:45:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wit's End trying to install news port Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Okay, either I'm doing something *really* wrong or the news port is hosed up (I suspect the former). I have been trying in vain to install the news port from the main Makefile. Making the executables worked, but I am stuck on doing the `make install' phase. First it bombed on the first place it tried to do `su -m bin'; csh returned a "permission denied" as it tried to cd to the ports directory, which was originally set to all be owned by root/wheel. I am running the make as root. By changing the ownership to root/bin (probably a no-no) it got past that point. Now it bombs with the same error on trying to do `su -m news' (for "relay"). What ownerships are supposed to be in the ports heirarchy and the various system accounts? --- /etc/passwd bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/: news:*:8:8:News Subsystem:/: -Dave Babler