From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 16:55:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EA437B41B for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:55:14 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:55:12 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Installworld/buildworld issues, and non-root user Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020404005514052.AAA153@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I went to update a 4.3-STABLE box to 4.5-STABLE. Things seemed to go OK for cvsup (after cvsup version upgrade), buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel. When I went to installworld (in single-user mode), I got a stop in /usr/src, there was a complaint about a permission problem (expected 755, got 700, or vice-versa), and a complaint that "user sewss doesn't exist". (I may have the exact spelling wrong, this is from memory) I looked in the referenced file (I think it was BSD.include.dist) and it indeed specified this weird username. So my first question is what is going on here, and my second question is that in the course of looking at this I discovered that neither /usr/src or /usr/obj are flagged as writable by the 'wheel' group, but I was certain I was able in the past to buildworld/buildkernel by a regular user (member of the 'wheel' group) and not root. Was I dreaming? Thx, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message