On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Do you somehow have bash set as your shell for batch > operations? On that platform you get sh or ksh by default, > and bash is not even installed by default.
I didn't know that bash was set as the shell for batch operations and it wouldn't have occurred to me to check. I am a user without superuser privileges on this computer. I did use chsh to set bash as the shell for terminals, but I have no idea if that operation sets sets bash as the shell for batch operations. Does anyone know how I can tell if I have [accidentally] set bash as the shell for batch operations or if this is a system default? (And how to change the shell for batch operations?) > If so, it was a crucial piece of information you haven't > told us and is something to bear in mind if you need > future help. True, but it wasn't obvious that was the missing piece of crucial info. The key evidence was: ./config.status: ./confstat28489-19881/subs.frag: cannot overwrite existing file which pointed to noclobber, and then I got the answer by trial and error. I had no idea .bashrc would affect batch operations or that I should check which shell was set for batch operations. Perhaps an addition to the R installation notes... Best regards, Michael Ash > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Michael Ash wrote: > > > OK, I solved my problem in case anyone is still interested. > > > > I have set noclobber (don't redirect ">" on top of an > > existing file) in .bashrc. The problem didn't clear up > > until I commented the line out of .bashrc. I tried turning > > the option off in the shell in which I was attempting to > > make R, but to no avail. Only commenting the noclobber line > > out of .bashrc resolved the problem. Then "make" worked > > like a charm. > > > > It took way too long, but it's so satisfying when you crack > > a problem like that. > > > > Best, > > > > Michael Ash > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Michael Ash wrote: > > > > > > > > I am trying to make R-1.8.1 on (SunOS shell1 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc > > > SUNW,UltraAX-i2). I did > > > ./configure > > > make > > > Configure output seems ok. The make proceeds until the following line appears, > > > repeated indefinitely (until I break): > > > > > > ./config.status: ./confstat28489-19881/subs.frag: cannot overwrite existing file > > > > > > I suspect that this may involve write permissions (and maybe > > > the umask set in config.status). I am attempting the make in > > > a directory where I have rwx permission. (I've also tried > > > this with "./configure --prefix=/home/me" with the same > > > result. I don't have superuser permission on the machine in > > > question and am planning to install R to my home directory.) > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
