Dear Brandon D Valentine, Thank you for your helpful comments.
> You may have to touch/chown/chmod a few files here and there to make > sure the appropriate users have permissions to write to/from them. See > /usr/src/etc/Makefile for some more information on that. > > Unfortunately I don't think there is a 'var' target in any of those > Makefiles. Thanks for the pointer. Yes, shame there is no such target. Considering that folks generally advise putting /var on a separate partition, my kind of bad luck must be quite common. With best regards, David. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr David Philip Kreil ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Research Fellow `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) University of Cambridge (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' ++44 1223 764107, fax 333992 _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dpk20 (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"