Do "ls -l /sw/fink" and see what the permissions and ownership are for /sw/fink/README. By way of comparison, mine are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 hansen admin 1607 Nov 5 09:02 README On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:35, Don Lavelle wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to self update, but I get this: > > [localhost:~] dlavelle% fink selfupdate > sudo /sw/bin/fink selfupdate > > Your Fink installation is set up to update package descriptions > directly from > CVS. Do you want to use this setup and update now? [Y/n] y > > I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package > descriptions. > The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs command as the user > 'dlavelle'. > After that, the core packages will be updated right away; you should > then > update the other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > su dlavelle -c 'cvs -z3 update -d -P' > cvs [update aborted]: reading README: Permission denied > ### execution of su failed, exit code 1 > Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. > > I'm assuming this means I probably did something silly, but how do I > fix it? (For all intents and purposes, I'm the only user on this > machine.) > > TIA, > Don Lavelle > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET > comprehensive development tool, built to increase your > productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET comprehensive development tool, built to increase your productivity. Try a free online hosted session at: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr0003en _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
