[ic] Still Clueless

Wed Aug 29 15:26:01 2001

ok.....from the logged in directory from telnet ../.. is the root
diretory and you'll never have permission to write there....nor
should you.

When in the tmp directory ../../ points to /home/shop4thingys
and is owned by same.  You shouldn't have any problems
writing to that directory if you are logged in as shop4thingys.
If you aren't then you don't have permission to write to that
directory either.  Another possible problem may be that the
permissions on that directoy  are 751 for some reason.  I'd
change that to 755 and give it another go.   Don't know if
that is the problem or not but might be...  You might also
check your umask to see how permissions are being handled.

russ....

"Frederick R. Matzen" wrote:

> Here are the results of that from both the root directory I'm in at telnet
> and the tmp dir I created from someone's suggestion.
>
> lsh107:~$ pwd
> /home/shop4thingys
> lsh107:~$ ls -ld ./../../
> drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root         1024 Aug  9 15:05 ./../../
> lsh107:~$ cd  tmp
> lsh107:~/tmp$ cd  interchange-4.8.1
> lsh107:~/tmp/interchange-4.8.1$ pwd
> /home/shop4thingys/tmp/interchange-4.8.1
> lsh107:~/tmp/interchange-4.8.1$ ls -ld ./../../
> drwxr-x--x   6 shop4thi shop4thi     1024 Aug 29 12:32 ./../../
> lsh107:~/tmp/interchange-4.8.1$
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> > [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Russ
> > Riggs
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:01 PM
> > To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [ic] Still Clueless
> >
> >
> > I'd be curious to know what the directory is at ./../..
> > Do a pwd then an ls -ld ./../.. and see what directory
> > configure is trying to open...  Maybe that'll give someone
> > a clue as to what the problem is.  I'll also say that
> > not having root permission is going to give you headaches.
> >
> > russ...
> >
> >
> > "Frederick R. Matzen" wrote:
> >
> > > That might be good if I knew how (or possibly could) log in as
> > root. Its not
> > > my system so it's possible I cannot do that.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> > > > [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> > > > System Administrator
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:20 AM
> > > > To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [ic] Still Clueless
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From the line;
> > > >
> > > > lsh107:~/interchange-4.8.1$ ./configure
> > > >
> > > > I would say, no you were not loged in as root. Install logged in
> > > > as root, when the configure program states, "program can not run
> > > > as root, select user to install interchange as:" enter the user
> > > > name at that time that IC will be run under.
> > > >
> > > > After ./configure runs, log out of root and in as user you stated
> > > > during install and then you can run the
> > > > interchange/bin/interchange -r to start it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > RS
> > > >
> > > > "Frederick R. Matzen" <fmatzen@home.com> wrote ..
> > > > > I'm still not getting ./configure to work and I've the
> > admin install the
> > > > > BUNDLE::INTERCHANGE packet, I've installed everything I could
> > > > find. I don't
> > > > > LINUX and I don't know PERL. I've had the same error upon
> > > > trying to install
> > > > > 4.7 and 4.8.
> > > > >
> > > > > lsh107:~/interchange-4.8.1$ ./configure
> > > > >
> > > > >  Interchange Version 4.7.x Configuration
> > > > >
> > > > >  Copyright 1996-2001 Red Hat, Inc. <interchange@redhat.com>
> > > > >
> > > > >  Interchange was originally based on Vend 0.2 and 0.3
> > > > >  Copyright 1995, 1996 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>
> > > > >
> > > > >  Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
> > > > >  See the file LICENSE for license information.
> > > > >
> > > > > Found Perl 5.6.0 as /usr/bin/perl
> > > > >
> > > > > If you get a CPAN error, rerun the configuration and it
> > should go away.
> > > > >
> > > > > opendir(./../..): Permission denied at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/FindBin.pm
> > > > > line
> > > > > 143
> > > > > Can't write uid file: Permission denied
> > > > > make: *** No targets.  Stop.
> > > > > make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am about to give up. I don't know what to ask the admin
> > to do or what
> > > > > to
> > > > > do myself. I don't know if I'm logged in as ROOT or how to
> > check. I also
> > > > > don't know if the system is on REdHat 7 yet or how to check (without
> > > > > actually asking that is).
> > > > >
>
> >
>
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