[SunHELP] pkgadd failure - checkinstall

[DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR]

I'm afraid      'chown -R nobody:nobody <patch tree>'  will not help if user
"nobody"
can't access the directory under which <patch tree> resides.

Normally the patch tree delivered by SUN into the tar archive  is already
accessible by 'nobody',
so you don't have to modify any permission/ownership under it.

Let's say patch tree is    "/mydir/105181-29".

All you have to do is to check "nobody" user's access to "/mydir" , with "su
nobody" for instance,
and then correct the problem ("chmod a+rx /mydir").


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Sebastien DAUBIGNE
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Sema Global Services - AFM/DW/Pessac

	-----Message d'origine-----
	De:	Dale Ghent [SMTP:daleg at elemental.org]
	Date:	mercredi 28 novembre 2001 23:44
	@:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
	Objet:	Re: [SunHELP] pkgadd failure - checkinstall

	On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 s at avoidant.org wrote:

	| Hi,
	|
	| I seem to be having a problem adding packages or patches to my
system
	| (Ultra 10 with a fresh install of Solaris 8). It fails with an
error
	| that says
	|
	| pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
	|
	| I can run the checkinstall script manually with no problems, but
when I
	| try to run pkgadd or install a patch cluster, it fails miserably.

	'chown -R nobody:nobody <patch tree>

	checkinstall runs as user install, and if that user doesnt exist
(which is
	likely on a stock box) then it will be ran as user nobody.

	Most likely, your problem is being caused by user nobody not being
able to
	read the patch information... so just do a recursive shown to nobody
on
	your patch tree(s) and try again.

	/dale
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