Eric Gorr wrote: > The problem I am having is that the install need to create a folder > inside the 'etc' folder. Unfortunately, that folder is not owned by > me (I am the admin for my machine and logged in as such). > > I cannot figure out how to alter the ownership.
I really wouldn't advise changing the ownership or the permissions of /etc, or anything under it for that matter. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about "admin" under MacOS X. In a normal BSD system, you would have to be a member of the "wheel" group, and you'd use the "su" command to temporarily switch to the "root" (a.k.a. superuser) account. Look in /etc/group. The first line should be something like "wheel:*:0:root,admin". After the third colon is a list of accounts that are allowed to use su. Maybe a OS X expert will jump in with the correct way to do it in that environment. Just don't go changing the ownership of /etc. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
