Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
[if you weren't following this thread, see the later (self-contained) part of this message for explanation.] On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, der.hans wrote: > Am 12. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Faheem Mitha so: > > > Agreed, but I do... :-) I think the problem may be that the non-existent > > user owning the direc

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-13 Thread der.hans
Am 12. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Faheem Mitha so: > Agreed, but I do... :-) I think the problem may be that the non-existent > user owning the directory is confusing the permission system. Can't think Don't matter to root. System doesn't look to see if the user exists ( guess that could be added to pam,

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, der.hans wrote: > Am 11. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Faheem Mitha so: > > > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. I tried to run > > apt-get build pgp4pine just now as root in my home directory (the first > > time after changing the id, I think) and I discovered t

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-12 Thread der.hans
Am 11. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Faheem Mitha so: > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. I tried to run > apt-get build pgp4pine just now as root in my home directory (the first > time after changing the id, I think) and I discovered that something has > got bollixeded up. I get > >

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 11 Jul 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. > > You are now userid 500 in /etc/passwd, but the files are still owned by > userid 1000. Changing your userid in /etc/passwd does not change the > o

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. You are now userid 500 in /etc/passwd, but the files are still owned by userid 1000. Changing your userid in /etc/passwd does not change the ownership of files. Try this: find / -user 1000 -pri

problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear people, I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. I tried to run apt-get build pgp4pine just now as root in my home directory (the first time after changing the id, I think) and I discovered that something has got bollixeded up. I get /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage: debian/rules: