[sudo-users] Problem of install tarball packages

[Carville, Stephen]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edwardspl at ita.org.mo [mailto:edwardspl at ita.org.mo]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:37 AM
> To: Carville, Stephen
> Cc: sudo-users at sudo.ws
> Subject: Re: [sudo-users] Problem of install tarball packages
>
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried the procedure ( step 3 ) :
> 
> [svradmin at svr1 proftpd-1.3.0a]$ ./configure
--prefix=/usr/local/proftpd
> 
> ./configure: line 88: conf4161.sh: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 89: conf4161.sh: Permission denied
> chmod: cannot access `conf4161.sh': No such file or directory
> ./configure: line 201: conf4161.file: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 1266: config.log: Permission denied
> [svradmin at svr1 proftpd-1.3.0a]$
> 
> So, how to fix the problem ( Permission denied ) ?
> May be I need to change the owner of "/usr/local" directory belong to
> "svradmin" user ?
> 
> Any solution for it ?

I looked over the configure file for 1.3.1 and I didn't see anything out
of the ordinary.  My best guess is svradmin doesn't have write
permission to the directory you extracted the tar.gz file to or you
extracted it as a different user.

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Stephen Carville <scarville at landam.com>
Systems Engineer
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