Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:37:56 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: nightrecon@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions and ownership of /usr/src Message-ID: <20150512093756.455fcf21.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5551AB33.1050006@qeng-ho.org> References: <20150510190342.GA9986@skytracker.ca> <20150510234531.f2398880.freebsd@edvax.de> <44r3qnfbwl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <mirj55$3c8$1@ger.gmane.org> <5551AB33.1050006@qeng-ho.org>
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On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:26:43 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 12/05/2015 01:57, Michael Powell wrote: > > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > >> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > >> > >>> On Sun, 10 May 2015 15:03:44 -0400, David Banning wrote: > >>>> Can anyone tell me what the permissions - ownership are/should > >>>> be for /usr/src ? > >>> > >>> /usr/src should belong to root:wheel and have rwxr-xr-x permissions > >>> (those are the defaults). Does mergemaster indicate an error for > >>> /usr/src itself or for a subdirectory thereof? > > > > I was wondering about this too, e.g. is the permission error in /var/tmp/ > > when mergemaster is trying to create the temproot directory tree under > > /var/tmp, and reflecting back through mergemaster when it fails. Somehow, I > > don't really think it likely, as a time or two I've had a problem like this > > mergemaster was very explicit about what was wrong. > > I have a note to myself in one of my machine's /etc/fstab that reads > > # Note: whereas noexec,nosuid seems like a good idea on /tmp, > # make -C /usr/src installworld creates programs under /tmp that > # it uses to do the install, so fails with the secure options. > > As I've switched to using freebsd-update lately this is irrelevant for > me now, but maybe this is what's hitting the OP. ISTR that mergeemaster > does something with make in /usr/src. This was another assumption I had: A subprogram is being called for execution from a partition mounted with the noexec and/or the nosuid option. But without the actual error message, this is just a guess. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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