On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:30 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > HI group, > > I moved /usr/portage to /var/portage and readjusted PORTDIR in > make.conf and re & re'd the link to /etc/make.profile. > > Now emege -p pkg for user leads to > > Permission denied: '/var/portage/profiles/categories' > > It's OK for root. > > NB:user is in portage group, /var/portage/profiles/categories is owned > by portage:portage. I googled the error message(I can't be the first > to move portage to var)and got nothing. Something else to check? > > Maxim Maybe it's one of the higher-up directories, that the user cannot read? Check /var /var/portage /var/portage/profiles. Easiest thing to do, would be to run as the user (not root): $ find /var/portage > /dev/null Only error messages should be displayed :)
Bye, Daniel