On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Martin Costabel wrote: > Viv Kendon wrote: > [] > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at > > /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 622. > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at > > /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 623. > > usage: chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fh] [owner][:group] file > > ... > > I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest > > package descriptions. > > > > /usr/bin/su -c "rsync -az --delete-after --delete -v > [] > > I see, there is a problem with the user name under which fink tries to > run these commands: It is empty. Who owns the directories /sw/fink/10.* ?
Well spotted: sheba:/sw/fink-22> ls -lt total 80 0 drwxr-xr-x 17 1045 1045 578 Nov 23 18:29 ./ 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 1045 1045 11 Nov 23 18:29 dists -> 10.2-gcc3.3/ 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 0 Nov 23 18:29 stamp-rsync-live 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 11 Nov 23 18:15 TIMESTAMP 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 1045 1045 204 Nov 22 00:15 10.2-gcc3.3/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 557 root admin 18938 Nov 21 09:30 debs/ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 1045 1045 11 Nov 12 19:45 VERSION 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 Oct 11 18:21 10.3/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin 204 Oct 11 18:21 10.2/ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2181 Jul 4 12:54 ChangeLog 0 drwxr-xr-x 11 root admin 374 May 25 18:19 ../ 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 6148 Mar 9 2003 .DS_Store* 44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 41105 Nov 25 2002 override 0 -rw------- 1 root admin 0 Nov 3 2002 stamp-rel-0.4.1 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 4860 Aug 21 2002 inject.pl* 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 24 Aug 21 2002 .cvsignore 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1607 Aug 21 2002 README I don't have a user with UID 1045 -- it must have unpacked that way from something when I updated fink...should I change them to be root/admin like the rest? With chown -R since the ownership propgates down the subdirs too? Or is it supposed to be owned by me? I'm comparing my G4 system at work, where I run fink update under a different UID from the one I am logged in as (because the one I normally log in as has an nfs-mounted home dir). There, only the timestamp has acquired the mystery UID: total 56 0 drwxr-xr-x 18 vmk admin 612 Nov 21 08:47 ./ 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 vmk admin 11 Nov 21 08:47 dists -> 10.2-gcc3.3/ 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 0 Nov 21 08:47 stamp-rsync-live 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 1045 1045 11 Nov 21 08:01 TIMESTAMP 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 vmk admin 204 Nov 21 08:00 10.2-gcc3.3/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 680 root admin 23120 Nov 19 17:20 debs/ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root unknown 11 Nov 12 19:45 VERSION 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 vmk admin 102 Oct 10 14:02 10.3/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 vmk admin 238 Oct 10 14:02 10.2/ 0 drwxr-xr-x 12 root admin 408 Aug 19 10:53 ../ 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 Aug 19 10:53 CVS-/ 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 vmk admin 2181 Jun 20 02:33 ChangeLog 8 -rwxr-xr-x 2 viv admin 6148 Feb 10 2003 .DS_Store* 20 -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 19063 Dec 7 2002 override 0 -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 0 Dec 7 2002 stamp-rel-0.5.0a 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vmk admin 4860 Aug 21 2002 inject.pl* 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 vmk admin 24 Aug 21 2002 .cvsignore 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 vmk admin 1607 Aug 21 2002 README thanks for the help! -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QOLS tel: 020 7594 7746 Blackett Laboratory Imperial College London ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
