Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:00:55 -0400 From: <srenna@vdbmusic.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, srenna@vdbmusic.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_info +COMMENTS problem Message-ID: <web-57947036@atlantech.net> In-Reply-To: <20031004143637.GA15799@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Gave that a shot, but still seeing the same problem
any other tips?
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:36:37 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:00:55AM -0400,
> srenna@vdbmusic.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having a problem. Whenever I run pkg_info with
> > whatever switches, I receive this at the top of the
> read
> > out, any ideas?
> >
> > pkg_info: show_file: can't open '+COMMENT' for reading
>
> Somewhere under /var/db/pkg you have a +COMMENT file
> which isn't
> readable by your UID. That's not correct -- all of the
> files under
> /var/db/pkg should be readable by all. That is mode 644
> for general
> files or mode 755 for directories and executables. All
> should be
> owned by root:wheel as well. Except for +MTREE_DIRS
> files which seem
> to be mode 444 for some odd reason.
>
> Try this (as root):
>
> # cd /var/db/pkg
> # chown -R root:wheel .
> # chmod -R a+rX,go-w .
> # chmod 444 */+MTREE_DIRS
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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