[ic] Still Clueless

[Frederick R. Matzen]

umask = 022 like you thought.
tried configure again. Exact same error.
IC is a really nice looking app but I think it might be better if someone
who knows unix installs it.

> -----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 2:13 PM
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Still Clueless
>
>
> Hmmmmmm....after changing the permissions on that directory
> to 755 you are still encountering the same problem?
>
> umask determins the permisson bits on files and directories
> when you create them.  You can check your umask by simply
> typing in 'umask' and seeing what it returns.  A typical umask
> is 022 which translates to a 644 permissions bit set for regular
> files and 755 for directories.  To get a 751 directory permission
> bit mask your umask should look something like 026....odd
> indeed as the 'world' will not have read or write (but has
> execution) permission on the directory.
>
> If you've changed the perms to 755 and are logged in as
> shop4thingys and it owns the ../.. directory then I don't know
> what the prob is.  Run the configure script again and let's take
> a look at the errors...
>
> "Frederick R. Matzen" wrote:
>
> > I checked permissions and they are set to 755
> > <ignorance alert> How do I check UMASK?
> >
> > > -----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 1:24 PM
> > > To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: [ic] Still Clueless
> > >
> > >
> > > 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$
> > > >
> > >
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