Return-Path: owner-postman Delivery-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 06:16:44 -0700 Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id BAA03871 for postgres-redist; Wed, 6 Apr 1994 01:02:40 -0700 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199404060802.BAA03871@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Return-Path: owner-postman Received: from nak.berkeley.edu (nak.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.136.21]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with ESMTP id BAA03859 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 1994 01:02:09 -0700 Received: from cmsa.Berkeley.EDU by nak.berkeley.edu (8.6.7/1.40) id BAA17764; Wed, 6 Apr 1994 01:02:08 -0700 Received: from cmsa.Berkeley.EDU by cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8755; Wed, 06 Apr 94 01:02:13 PDT Received: from HUEARN.SZTAKI.HU by cmsa.Berkeley.EDU (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5228; Wed, 06 Apr 94 01:02:13 PDT Received: from HUGBOX.BITNET (NJE origin MAILER@HUGBOX) by HUEARN.SZTAKI.HU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 7980; Wed, 6 Apr 1994 10:04:27 -0400 Received: by HUGBOX.SZTAKI.HU (MX V3.3 VAX) with SITE; Wed, 06 Apr 1994 10:00:16 gmt+1 Received: from HUEARN.sztaki.hu by HUGBOX.SZTAKI.HU (MX V3.3 VAX) with SMTP; Tue, 05 Apr 1994 18:42:42 gmt+1 Received: from nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU by HUEARN.sztaki.hu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Mon, 04 Apr 94 11:23:32 EDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id XAA04682 for postgres-dist; Sun, 3 Apr 1994 23:17:26 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.4/8.6.3) with SMTP id XAA04673; Sun, 3 Apr 1994 23:17:25 -0700 Message-ID: <199404040617.XAA04673@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) To: wolf@molout.tutkie.tut.ac.jp (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt) CC: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: Still problems with regression test Reply-To: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki) Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 23:17:25 -0700 Resent-To: postgres-redist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 94 01:02:39 -0700 Resent-XMts: smtp wolf@molout.tutkie.tut.ac.jp (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt) writes: > Didn't you just write something about fixed directory permissions ? > This directory (created under user postgres in the normal > installation procedure) hast the following permissions: > wolf@hexane% ll -d obj > drwxr-xr-x 2 postgres general 512 Apr 4 14:45 obj/ mmm.. well, i'm not sure what you mean by "normal" installation procedure, but the beta installation notes say: Extract POSTGRES from the tar file using the following com- mand: % tar xvfp postgres-v4r2.tar to prevent problems like this. the "p" option preserves file permissions from the tar file, and we make that directory mode 777 in the tar file: faerie:aoki (518)> gtar tvzf postgres-v4r2.tar.Z | egrep regress/regress/obj drwxrwxrwx 2435/18 0 Apr 1 14:52 1994 src/regress/regress/obj/ faerie:aoki (519)> we have to do this because the person running the test needs to be able to create files and "postgres" needs to be able to create files. (this is true of any directory into which you want to run the copy command.) -- Paul M. Aoki | CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB | aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU | Berkeley, CA 94720 | ...!uunet!ucbvax!aoki