Hi
agree /usr/local would suffice but our /usr/local is all root owned
this is what the admin gets for /usr/local
mv majordomo-1.94.5.tar /usr/local
mv: /usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5.tar: Numerical result out of range
[admin@www /usr]$ ls -al
total 100
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 26 11:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 29 15:55 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:21 X11R6
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 16384 Mar 5 11:23 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:26 dict
drwxr-xr-x 148 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 1996 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 games
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:22 i386-redhat-linux
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:24 i486-linux-libc5
drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:22 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Mar 5 11:23 info
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:23 kerberos
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 8192 Mar 5 11:23 lib
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 May 26 11:57 local
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:25 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 06:29 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 share
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 1 11:25 src
lrwxrwxrwx 3 root root 10 May 26 11:19 tmp -> ../var/tmp
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Sellar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: directory ownership and permissions
> You are quite right. Have just checked and the ownership of /usr/local is
> being set to root.root. It should always be set to admin.admin - I'll see
> about getting the changes made. When building from source vs owners can th
en
> install under /usr/local, which is fairly standard practice for most
> packages.
>
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Reid
> > (cars-sold)
> > Sent: 01 June 2001 10:09
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: directory ownership and permissions
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > we are testing a straight rpm install using the pre-built skel and the
VS
> > admins are finding they cannot compile any software, majordomo etc
because
> > none of the USR directories have the correct permissions - basically
admin
> > can write to home, root and tmp.
> >
> > Below is the root folder showing the ownership of directories - is this
as
> > per a standard pre-built skel or have we messed up somewhere?
> >
> > [admin@www /]$ ls -al
> > total 64
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 29 15:55 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 29 15:55 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 30 08:03 c
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 May 26 11:57 dev
> > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 29 17:20 etc
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 admin admin 4096 May 27 14:15 home
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 lib
> > dr-xr-xr-x 73 root root 0 May 29 17:20 proc
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Jun 1 05:19 root
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:23 sbin
> > drwxrwxrwt 2 admin admin 4096 Jun 1 05:23 tmp
> > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 26 11:45 usr
> > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 26 11:57 var
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Gary
> >
>
