Make Permission errors! Most odd.

Peter Elsner peter at servplex.com
Thu Jul 24 06:10:24 PDT 2003


or use the p option to extract with the same permissions.



At 05:57 PM 7/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>"Brad" <brad at perfectcircle.ca> writes:
>
> > I've been experiencing permission errors with make
> > intermittently. It's happening with quite a few users on the box but
> > it's just random. It's never a certain application or a certain
> > user/group so it's been very hard to pinpoint what the problem is,
> > hence why I'm posting here.
> >
> > What is happening is basically a user will untar a file and type
> > "make" after a ./configure and get "make: Permission denied". When I
> > first encountered this I believe I chmod -R 777 * in the directory
> > that the file was untared in and that worked for me, but for some of
> > my users who are less experienced with freeBSD won't know how and
> > don't know how to resolve this and it shouldn't be happening in the
> > first place. Other users say they have gotten the error and simply
> > logged out and back in and resolved it.
> >
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas what is causing this and how to fix it?
>
>tar(1) stores permissions as well as the files themselves.  By
>default, it doesn't seem (according to a quick manual check I just
>did) to try to recreate those permissions when it extracts the files;
>it uses the umask instead.  So make sure that the users have a
>reasonable umask by default.
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