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 XAA04682 for postgres-dist; Sun, 3 Apr 1994 23:17:26 -0700 Resent-From: POSTGRES mailing list Resent-Message-Id: <199404040617.XAA04682@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: owner-postman@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-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 XAA04673; Sun, 3 Apr 1994 23:17:25 -0700 Message-Id: <199404040617.XAA04673@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol 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) In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 4 Apr 94 14:48:51 jst <9404040548.AA20740@molout.tutkie.tut.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 23:17:25 -0700 X-Sender: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU Resent-To: postgres-dist@postgres.Berkeley.EDU X-Mts: smtp Resent-Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 23:17:25 -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