[Mailman-Users] Request help: MM 2.1.5 Install on BSD; setGID errors.

[Hugh Esco]

My friend is root in his BSD jail.  Will this be sufficient?  

-- Hugh Esco 

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:19:57 +0200
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:

> At 6:35 AM +0000 2004-08-12, hesco at greens.org wrote:
> 
> >  The config.log reports:
> >  ***** Installation directory /usr/local/mailman is not configured
> >  properly!
> >  ***** Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /usr/local/mailman
> 
> 	You need to be more than in group wheel to fix this.  You need
> 	to be root.
> 
> >  Although I see no indication of it here, we did run a chmod 4755
> >  on this directory.  Tried the chmod g+s . at a prompt as well.
> 
> 	Until you're root, you're not going to be able to fix this.
> 
> >  Still we get this error.  Is there any way to get ls to show
> >  permissions as numbers, instead of in rwx format?
> 
> 	Check your man page for `ls`, but I didn't see anything on the 
> FreeBSD systems I checked.
> 
> >  What might folks suggest to get us moving again?
> 
> 	You need to get root access to the box, or at least your friend 
> does, so that you can correct the permissions problem.
> 
> -- 
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>
> 
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> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
> 
>      -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
>      Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
> 
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