Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:15:58 +0200 From: Vincent TOUGAIT <viny@gcu-squad.org> To: FREEBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Cant't write in /var Message-ID: <20020530151558.GA7971@tchoubou.scientiae.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205301418570.14897-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20020529213522.GA17100@tchoubou.scientiae.net> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205301418570.14897-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:19:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Jan Grant may have written : > Can you post the error messages? It's had to guess otherwise. Sure. Actually, I have a problem with two ports : mysql323-server and rpm. Here are the error messages : <root@sylfeline:/usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server#> make install ===> Installing for mysql-server-3.23.49 [snip] ===> Generating temporary packing list /usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/db/mysql': File exists mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/db/mysql/mysql': File exists mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/db/mysql/test': File exists Though the files don't exist. I can still create the directories myself, but then, the mysql323-server Makefile believes I have old db installed and want me to remove it. I guess I could edit the Makefile so that it doesn't check the existence of these files, but it isn't very clean... And it doesn't solve the problem, because rpm too can't write in /var, as shown below : <root@sylfeline:/usr/ports/archivers/rpm#> make install ===> Installing for rpm-3.0.6_6 [snip] install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 -s rpm /usr/local/bin/rpm mkdir /var/lib mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/lib': File exists mkdir /var/lib/rpm mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/lib/rpm': File exists Here again the files don't exist... Vincent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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