From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 6:21:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A499D37B407 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 06:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:21:01 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17DPqJ-0004l5-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 14:19:51 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:19:50 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Vincent TOUGAIT Cc: FREEBSD-questions Subject: Re: Cant't write in /var In-Reply-To: <20020529213522.GA17100@tchoubou.scientiae.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 May 2002, Vincent TOUGAIT wrote: > Can someone tell me why the ports I try to install (mysql & rpm for > example) can't write to /var though it doesn't seem to have any flags, and > the system is at securelevel 0 ? > > Thanks in advance Can you post the error messages? It's had to guess otherwise. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Semantic rules, OK? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message