From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 10:30:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D7215258 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.17]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA448E; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:27:46 +0200 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01293; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:27:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3717824B.D63EA6EF@castle.net> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:27:56 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: gkaplan Subject: RE: source module update Cc: questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16-Apr-99 gkaplan wrote: > 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. Logical: ~ = $HOME The tilde gets expanded to yer homedirectory... > 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... It's a mishap of Windows... Just rename the file afterwards... > 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? Log in as root, then vi /etc/group and add yer login name after the wheel:0: part... Then log out, log in as yerself and do a su -m. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The FreeBSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message