[Pythonmac-SIG] Guide to installing Unix-Python on MacOS X

[Steven Burr]

On Thursday, May 17, 2001, at 02:43 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> 								 Oh yes, and I think there's
> no reason for the sudo: if you're an administrator you should be able
> to write in /usr/local/bin yourself.

Apparently not (unless I'm misinterpreting the following, which is 
entirely possible):

> $ ls -lF /usr/local
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root     wheel         568 May  8 21:04 bin/
> [snip]
>
> $ touch /usr/local/bin/test.txt
> touch: /usr/local/bin/test.txt: Permission denied

Root appears to own /usr/local/bin and to have exclusive write 
permission.