On 13 Sep 2014, at 12:08 , Doug Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/13/14 6:20 AM, LuKreme wrote: >> There are no ACLs on my system for/usr/ or /usr/local, but then again I >> don’t run home-brew and it sure sounds like Homebrew mucked something up. > > Sorry, I'm obviously not communicating this clearly. > > It is not a problem with homebrew
So you say, but HomeBrew changed the perms. $ mkdir test.perm $ sudo chown root:admin test.perm $ touch test.perm/test.file touch: test.perm/test.file: Permission denied $ sudo chmod 775 test.perm/ $ touch test.perm/test.file $ ls -lsn test.perm/ total 0 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 501 80 0 Sep 13 14:49 test.file Works perfectly as expected. > It is not a problem strictly with /usr, or /usr/local > > I get the same results on every directory that falls into this category (not > owned by me, but 775 permissions with a group I am a member of) Then maybe HomeBrew *REALLY* fucked up your computer? Have you checked their mailing list and/or forums? Since you KNOW that HB changed the perms on /usr/local/ it seems a reasonable place to start. > I realize that this is an unusual situation, and that I *should* be able to > write to the directories involved. But I can't, which is why I'm asking for > help. :) Did you try creating a new admin account and seeing if it behaved the same way like I suggested? You could also try installing a fresh OS X (either over the top of your current install or onto an external drive you can boot from). The behavior you are seeing is not typical. The permissions you are showing us are not typical. This tells me that either you did something or something you installed did something that mucked things up. > I'm curious at this point if there are any other mailing lists or forums that > y'all would recommend that I could post this question to. Of course I remain > open to help from this list, but it seems we're going in circles a bit. The apple discussion web forum, perhaps. -- I always take life with a grain of salt, plus a slice of lime and a shot of tequila. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
