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Subject: Re: buildworld fails as non-root user
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Joan Picanyol wrote:

> I can't buildworld as a regular user with a clean /usr/obj:
...
> Is this expected behaviour? Is there a workaround?

I build world using a non-root user frequently, so I'd say it's not
expected.  Could you rm -Rf /usr/obj again (and make sure the contents are
really gone -- rm will need you to manually remove the schg flag, if it's
set), set the ownership, and try again? 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research