From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 16 11:37:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lance.castle.net (lance.castle.net [199.173.5.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50C5014E63 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gkaplan@castle.net) Received: (qmail 29763 invoked from network); 16 Apr 1999 18:30:13 -0000 Received: from parsip-net-37.intac.com (HELO castle.net) (199.173.8.48) by lance.castle.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 1999 18:30:13 -0000 Message-ID: <3717824B.D63EA6EF@castle.net> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:32:43 -0400 From: gkaplan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: source module update Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Or have I shot myself in the foot. proceeding on intuition instead of knowledge I downloaded source from a maintainers site using netscape under w95, I let the system assign file names when doing File/saveAs. 1.) one files downloaded ( a html file ) has a file name that beings with a initial tilde. When I tried reading the file using lynx several different expression for the file name: 1.a lynx ~xyz.html this returned the message `` badly formatted address '' 1.b lynx \~xyz.html from the lynx context this displayed the root directory. 1.c lynx ./~xyz.html lynx opened showing the file that I expected to see. What is the explanation for my results. 2.) the source file which was sent as xyz.src.tar.gz was saved as xyz_src_tar_tar . I know that this is not strictly speaking a freebsd question but... 3.) following the suggested command sequence to create and executable module: $ tar xvfz xyx.src.tar.gz $ cd xyz-* $ make $ su executing as a non privileged user this command sequence failed on the last command . The question then is how do I change my group privileges from the default to wheel ? How do I avoid breaking security? Have I done something that would confuse the package database in that the update that I have downloaded from the current development site is already installed, in the form of an earlier version, from the 2.2.8 RELEASE cd? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message