Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:47:59 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: Romain Kang <romain@kzsu.stanford.edu> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add puzzlement Message-ID: <20010724174759.B59947@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <200107240121.f6O1L0p17808@kzsu.stanford.edu>; from romain@kzsu.stanford.edu on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:21:00PM -0700 References: <200107240121.f6O1L0p17808@kzsu.stanford.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Romain Kang(romain@kzsu.stanford.edu)@2001.07.23 18:21:00 +0000: > I've been using this in a PLIST: > > 1 @exec test -d %D/var/run/procstates || mkdir -p %D/var/run/procstates > 2 @exec chown root.wheel %D/var/run/procstates && chmod 1775 %D/var/run/procstates > > The rationale for each line: > - 1 Install: make sure that the directory exists, avoiding error messages > if an earlier instance of the package is on the machine. > - 2 Install: make sure directory has correct permissions. > > For some reason, there are machines where the package is added, but > /var/run/procstates does not get created. pkg_add has no complaints. > > I've looked at the package, root's login environment, and the > pkg_add source code, but I don't see any reason for this anomaly. shouldn't mkdir -p -m 1755 /what/ever work? /k -- > Vegetarians for oral sex -- "The only meat that's fit to eat" KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7XZivM0BPTilkv0YRAjG6AJ9dsRtns1Qh6C2gT6BVo9uQwdpNhACgixZW krAuCrkxumvl5Jw1ubndyek= =iSzy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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