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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:55:12 -0800
From:      "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Installworld/buildworld issues, and non-root user
Message-ID:  <20020404005514052.AAA153@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>

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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



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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist@ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium


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