From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 23:40:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0985C16A419 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FE413C4B7 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:40:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia-2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1C6E018A for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:01:31 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:01:29 +0100 From: cpghost To: ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20071031000129.68f67395@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> Organization: Cordula's Web X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: palm/plucker: plucker-build: Permission denied X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:40:24 -0000 Hi, palm/plucker (plucker-1.8_2) installs symlinks like plucker-build, plucker-decode and plucker-dump into /usr/local/bin. Those symlinks link to Python files (.py extensions) in /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyPlucker/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 58 Oct 2 20:08 plucker-build -> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyPlucker/Spider.py lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 63 Oct 2 20:08 plucker-decode -> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyPlucker/PluckerDocs.py lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 58 Oct 2 20:08 plucker-dump -> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyPlucker/Decode.py Calling them from a shell therefore results in a permission denied error message: > plucker-build /usr/local/bin/plucker-build: Permission denied. > plucker-decode /usr/local/bin/plucker-decode: Permission denied. > plucker-dump /usr/local/bin/plucker-dump: Permission denied. but calling them with 'python', everything is okay: > python /usr/local/bin/plucker-build Error: No output filename specified, and stdout is a terminal! Usage: /usr/local/bin/plucker-build [OPTIONS] [HOMEURL] (Type '/usr/local/bin/plucker-build --help' for more information.) Aren't files in /usr/local/bin supposed to be directly executable? A little /bin/sh wrapper would be much better than a symlink to a Python file. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/