Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 11:28, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It does it every time here. It did it just the other day. In the error >> emerge spits out, it even says something about permissions and that's >> when I remember to go change it. After that, it works fine. Maybe it >> is not world readable or something. I dunno. I just know I have to >> change it before it works. Now that I think about it, it started doing >> that when I began using Krusader as my file manager. Maybe it is >> something to do with that. I don't recall any of the other portage >> files needing that. > Maybe your default umask has changed, or Krusader has its own default. > Just type umask in a terminal to see what it's set to. > > Cheers, > Arve > >
I get this in a Konsole. root@fireball / # umask 0022 root@fireball / # I'm not sure how to check what Krusader is set too. I did do this tho. I created a test file within Krusader, named test.file, and got this in Konsole: root@fireball / # ls -al /etc/portage/patches/net-libs/test.file -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 2 10:11 /etc/portage/patches/net-libs/test.file root@fireball / # It's not world readable from my understanding. Only root can read or write that file. I then used touch to create test.file2 within Konsole and got this: root@fireball /etc/portage/patches/net-libs # ls -al /etc/portage/patches/net-libs/test.file* -rw------- 1 root root 0 Sep 2 10:11 /etc/portage/patches/net-libs/test.file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 2 10:14 /etc/portage/patches/net-libs/test.file2 root@fireball /etc/portage/patches/net-libs # It appears Konsole creates a world readable file while Krusader doesn't. To be honest tho, I sort of think Krusader is doing it correctly. It does mean I have to change it for portage to work but it should be set to portage since it is what is using/reading the file anyway. While it sort of annoys me that I forget to change the file, I'm not sure I want to change the setting, since it makes sense to me that it does it that way. At least now we know why it errors out with a permission problem tho. Most likely, unless someone else is using Krusader as I am, not many will run into that problem. Thanks for pointing that out because I was curious as to why it started doing that way. We can blame this on Dolphin making it difficult to run as root. That's why I switched. Dale :-) :-) Oh, sorry for being so original with the file names. ROFL
