[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #955 - 18 msgs

[Dan Mick]

Does the fact that your prompt is root# mean that you *are* root?
If so, then no, on any Unix I know of, there's no way you should be setting
permission failures.

Tom Moore wrote:
> 
> At 9:37 AM -0500 1/1/01, Jeffrey Thompson wrote:
> 
> >Sounds like an ownership problem....
> 
> It was, and thank you for your help. I got past that point in the
> install, and have hit another roadblock. Does anything pop to mind
> when you see this?:
> 
> [rock:~] root# cd /private/var/root/Library/OpenUp/mailman_0/mailman-2.0
> [rock:OpenUp/mailman_0/mailman-2.0] root# ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for --with-python... no
> checking for python... (cached) /usr/local/bin/python
> checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python
> checking Python version... 2.0
> checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for true... (cached) /usr/bin/true
> checking for --without-gcc... no
> checking for gcc... (cached) cc
> checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether cc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking whether #! works in shell scripts... (cached) yes
> checking for --with-var-prefix... no
> checking for --with-username... mailman
> checking for mailman UID... 113
> checking for --with-groupname... mailman
> checking for mailman GID... 10
> checking permissions on /home/mailman... okay
> checking for mail wrapper GID... (cached) 6
> checking for CGI wrapper GID... (cached) 70
> checking for CGI extensions... no
> checking for default fully qualified host name... rock
> checking for default URL host component... rock
> checking for strerror... (cached) yes
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1545]
> checking for setregid... (cached) yes
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1545]
> checking for syslog... (cached) yes
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1545]
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) cc -E -traditional-cpp
> checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1770]
> checking for syslog.h... (cached) yes
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1807]
> checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... (cached) yes
> checking type of array argument to getgroups... (cached) gid_t
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1918]
> checking for vsnprintf... (cached) yes
> ./configure: permission denied: confdefs.h [1971]
> creating ./config.status
> ./config.status: permission denied: conftest.subs [41]
> ./config.status: permission denied: conftest.s1 [101]
> mkdir: misc: Permission denied
> creating misc/paths.py
> sed: ./misc/paths.py.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: misc/paths.py [181]
> mkdir: Mailman: Permission denied
> creating Mailman/Defaults.py
> sed: ./Mailman/Defaults.py.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Defaults.py [181]
> mkdir: Mailman: Permission denied
> creating Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist
> sed: ./Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist [181]
> mkdir: src: Permission denied
> creating src/Makefile
> sed: ./src/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: src/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: misc: Permission denied
> creating misc/Makefile
> sed: ./misc/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: misc/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: bin: Permission denied
> creating bin/Makefile
> sed: ./bin/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: bin/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman: Permission denied
> creating Mailman/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman/Cgi: No such file or directory
> creating Mailman/Cgi/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/Cgi/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Cgi/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman/Logging: No such file or directory
> creating Mailman/Logging/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/Logging/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Logging/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman/Archiver: No such file or directory
> creating Mailman/Archiver/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/Archiver/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Archiver/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman/pythonlib: No such file or directory
> creating Mailman/pythonlib/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/pythonlib/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/pythonlib/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman/Handlers: No such file or directory
> creating Mailman/Handlers/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/Handlers/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Handlers/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: Mailman/Bouncers: No such file or directory
> creating Mailman/Bouncers/Makefile
> sed: ./Mailman/Bouncers/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: Mailman/Bouncers/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: templates: Permission denied
> creating templates/Makefile
> sed: ./templates/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: templates/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: cron: Permission denied
> creating cron/Makefile
> sed: ./cron/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: cron/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: filters: Permission denied
> creating filters/Makefile
> sed: ./filters/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: filters/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: scripts: Permission denied
> creating scripts/Makefile
> sed: ./scripts/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: scripts/Makefile [181]
> mkdir: cron: Permission denied
> creating cron/crontab.in
> sed: ./cron/crontab.in.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: no such file or directory: cron/crontab.in [181]
> creating Makefile
> sed: ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> ./config.status: permission denied: Makefile [181]
> [rock:OpenUp/mailman_0/mailman-2.0] root#
> ----------
> 
> Again, many thanks.
> 
> Tom
> --
> 
> Tom Moore
> President, Landslide Design
> tom.moore at landslidedesign.com
> 11 Forest Ave., Rockville, MD 20850
> phone: 301.762.0627 fax: 301.762.5156
> 
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