[Xastir] Permission probs.

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 09:17:46AM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <eja at urbakken.dk> flavor, containing:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm installing Xastir on my openSuSE 10.2 install here.
> The xastir version is xastir-1.8.4-3
> 
> I have some permissionprobs., when I run the inf2geo file:
> 
> erikja at lajka3:/usr/share/xastir/maps/Online> ./inf2geo.pl
> Nordjylland-250.inf
> *** Nordjylland-250.inf ***
> Couldn't open Nordjylland-250.geo for writing: Permission denied
> erikja at lajka3:/usr/share/xastir/maps/Online> mc
> 
> erikja at lajka3:/usr/share/xastir/maps/Online> rpm -q xastir
> xastir-1.8.4-3
> erikja at lajka3:/usr/share/xastir/maps/Online> ls -l Nordjylland-250.inf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 erikja users 63 2005-11-12 20:41 Nordjylland-250.inf
> 
> I have set the file to user erikja and group. What's the problem ?

The /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/Online directory is not writable by you,
it's probably owned by root.  You should probably run inf2geo with "sudo"
to run it with root permissions, or choose another directory that you
do hav write access to in which to perform the operation.

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