Re: How to fix perms...

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:52:47PM -0700, Robert P. Thille wrote:
> Anyway, I've noticed issues with running programs (xemacs reports it's out
> of memory?!?) as a normal user, but not as 'root', so I figure it's a
> permissions problem.  I've tried rebuilding and re-installing current using
> 'build.sh' and having it install to "/".  The etc-update tasks succeeded,
> but still I have these permission problems...
 
Your out of memory problem looks more like a limit on the user
(eg, csh, "limit", sh,"ulimit -a")  Can you be more specific about
what is wrong?

> Is there some way I can use the build output and mtree to figure out what's
> wrong?  Should I re-run MAKEDEV?

Something like
 
  mtree -e -p / -f /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist
  mtree -e -p / -f /etc/mtree/special
 
?
 
Cheers,
 
Patrick