On 10/30/02 3:06 AM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After playing with this some more, I found that I was *not* able to > transfer these dangerous permissions from the binary installer's pax > file to the actual "/" directory when I used the binary installer as > intended, i.e. by double-clicking on the "Fink 0.4.1 Installer.pkg" icon. > > The only way to get the bad permissions onto my disk was to do something > low-level such as (as root) > > gunzip < /Volumes/Fink-0.4.1-installer/Fink\ 0.4.1\ > Installer.pkg/Contents/Resources/Fink\ 0.4.1\ Installer.pax.gz | pax -r > -p 'e' I didn't see this email before, for some reason. Sorry about the earlier email that blamed fink. However, we didn't do anything "unintended" - my father just double-clicked on the package both times. > June, the permissions on symlinks reflect those of the parent directory, > "/" in this case, not the permissions of the target directory. So the > only thing that happened was the change in ownership and permissions of > "/" (which can be repaired by "chmod 1775 /"; "chown root.admin /"), > plus probably the wrong ownership of the whole /sw/ hierarchy. CRAP! I didn't know this [symlink's permissions are of it's directory]! But file ownership was also screwed up (not just with root; everything but root was a number) - would this fix it? OS X is already deleted... can't try it anyways. -- -- sinclair44 Optimism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, it's probably an explosion from the death of another borg cube." Pessimism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, it's probably a photon torpedo." [Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force] Realism: "If you see a light at the end of the wormhole, you're eyes are going to hurt." ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
