Subject: Re: How to fix perms...
To: Robert P. Thille <list-netbsd-help@rangat.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/20/2007 12:18:18
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:52:47PM -0700, Robert P. Thille wrote:
> Anyway, I've noticed issues with running programs (xemacs reports it's out
> of memory?!?) as a normal user, but not as 'root', so I figure it's a
> permissions problem. I've tried rebuilding and re-installing current using
> 'build.sh' and having it install to "/". The etc-update tasks succeeded,
> but still I have these permission problems...
Your out of memory problem looks more like a limit on the user
(eg, csh, "limit", sh,"ulimit -a") Can you be more specific about
what is wrong?
> Is there some way I can use the build output and mtree to figure out what's
> wrong? Should I re-run MAKEDEV?
Something like
mtree -e -p / -f /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist
mtree -e -p / -f /etc/mtree/special
?
Cheers,
Patrick