Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories

On 16. mars. 2009, at 00.50, freebsd001@pc.jgr.de wrote:

>                                             March 16, 2009
> Dear Giorgos,
>
> thank you for coming back to the emacs issue. I deinstalled
> emacs by means of pkg_delete -v -d, deleted by hand
> /usr/local/share/emacs to make sure that nothing is left,
> logged in as user "nutzer", and did su to root:
>
>> id
> uid=1006(nutzer) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),0(wheel)
>> su
> Password:

Try 'su -' instead of 'su'.
There might be some environment issues; I've seen similar behavior  
when making that mistake myself.

Not sure if it'll explain the 777, but the owner should be the correct  
one then.

/Eirik

>
>> id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),5(operator)
>>
>
> Then, I did cd to /usr/ports/editors/emacs and did make and
> make install. The result is as follows:
>
>> pwd
> /usr/local/share/emacs/22.3
>> ll
> total 22
> drwxrwxrwx   5 nutzer  wheel   3072 Mar 15 23:52 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   4 nutzer  wheel    512 Mar 15 23:53 leim
> drwxrwxrwx  20 nutzer  wheel  13312 Mar 15 23:53 lisp
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    512 Mar 15 23:52 site-lisp
>>
>
> There are some rwx directories as originally mentioned in
> the thread, and several directories as well as the files in
> these directories are not owned by root, but by nutzer.
>
> If I log in as another user in the group wheel, do su, and
> repeat the procedure, the files are owned by the other user
> I log in.
>
> As I have only limited console access or find the console
> access inconvenient, I have installed many ports by logging
> in as a user in the group wheel and doing su to root. But
> only emacs related files are owned by somebody else than
> expected.
>
> With best regards
> Joachim Griesche
>
> freebsd001@pc.jgr.de
>
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