Matteo Quintiliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 19/giu/05, at 23:22, Daniel E. Macks wrote:
>
>> What are the results of the commands "ls -ld /" and "id" (type them
>> each, without quotes, in a Terminal or xterm window).
>
> lautrec:~ root# ls -ld /
> drwxrwxr-t   30 root  admin  1122 Jun 20 14:20 /

That looks correct, and consistent with what "repair permissions" would do.

> lautrec:~ root# id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 1(daemon), 2(kmem), 3(sys),  
> 31(guest), 4(tty), 5(operator), 80(admin), 20(staff)

Would be interesting to know what 'id' shows when you are *not* logged
in as superuser. The real issue here is that the user running the
Installer needs to be able to write to the / directory. If all else fails,

  1. sudo chmod 1777 /
  2. Run the installer
  3. sudo chmod 1775 /

dan

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