Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!paul From: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Installing C news Message-ID: <182300002@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Jun 89 17:45:00 GMT References: <3176@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:sun.soe.clarkson.edu:3176:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:182300002:000:260 Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!paul Jun 16 12:45:00 1989 I had similar problems with the doit.bin script not having permission to write in various directories. My solution was to run it as root via sh -x doit.bin >& doit.log Afterwards I examined the log and did the chown commands manually. Paul Pomes UIUC-CSO