[Xastir] Permission probs.

[Erik Jakobsen]

Tom Russo wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Hi Tom.

Tnx for Your kind reply. Oh yes, what I forgot was to have a look at the 
permisson for the directory itself :-)

73's de Erik OZ4KK