hmm I was just a suggestion...I don't know very much about hte mozilla
port haven't looked at it.  Maybe add a check to the mozilla script?  I
dont' know how it's being made or why it's wrong when being made.  But i
don't know that is the problem.

I'm glad that you figured out the issue with rm at least :P

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>That doesn't explain things in my case.  I do all of my compiling and 
>installing while logged in as root, NOT via sudo.  (Why? long story, see
>the P.S. if you care).  So the install script never heard of user drm,
>and couldn't be responsible for creating /Users/drm/.mozilla.
>
>See, the real problem is, even if a user is installing stuff and somehow
>because of leftover environment information in sudo that user can be
>identified, maybe it's a *different* user on the same machine with a
>faulty
>./mozilla directory.
>
>  -- Dave
>
>P.S. Once upon a time Dave had a fink package that wouldn't install
>properly.
>He was tearing out his hair, trying to understand why "rm" wouldn't work
>correctly, until he finally realized that he has "alias rm 'rm -i'" set
>in his shell, and when operating in sudo mode fink inherited this.
>
>So he developed the habit of running one of his Terminal windows as root
>("su -l" does it).

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