<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Hameleers</b> <<a href="mailto:alien@sox.homeip.net">alien@sox.homeip.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mark Flacy wrote:<br><br>>Greetings,<br>><br>>You might find the attached email interesting. I intend to modify any scripts which I write according to Pat's response.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Mark Flacy wrote:
<br>><br>>> Greetings,<br>>><br>>> I can't really say this is a bug, but it has bitten me in the behind<br>>> a few times. The scripts will 'cd' into /tmp, explode the source<br>>> archive, 'cd' into the new source directory and then recursively
<br>>> chown everything in there to root.root.<br>>><br>>> If, for some reason, the "explode the source archive" didn't work you<br>>> end up recursively chowning *everything* in /tmp to
root.root. That<br>>> includes all the user-specific directories used by KDE, Gnome,<br>>> ssh-agent, and so on. If you aren't root, things stop working.<br>>> That's really annoying. :-)<br>><br>The SBo scripts build everything in "/tmp/SBo" which alleviates the
<br>potential problem quite a lot.</blockquote><div><br>I also use set -e, which will halt the script on ANY errors<br> </div>-- <br></div>Martin Lefebvre<br>eMail: <a href="mailto:dadexter@gmail.com">dadexter@gmail.com</a>
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