First, let me join the chorus of praise for R. (Hey, isn't somebody going to analyse all these praise emails in some statistical way?) I'm writing to point out an error in the file permissions in the linux/redhat version. (I'm using R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm, by the way.) The permissions in /usr/lib/R/doc/html aren't correct, since 'function.html' and 'packages.html' are both only readible by the owner (who is the system user, named 'root'), and not by normal users. Sure, I can fix this on my machine (and have, of course), but I thought it was worth pointing out so that somebody can tweak either the "spec" file that was used in generating the linux/redhat package, or perhaps the Makefile that I presume is being used by other R installers. Thanks. Dan E. Kelley internet: mailto:Dan.Kelley at Dal.CA Oceanography Department phone: (902)494-1694 Dalhousie University fax: (902)494-2885 Halifax, NS, CANADA, B3H 4J1 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
tiny bug in R installation (redhat)
3 messages · Martyn Plummer, Dan Kelley
On 01-Mar-00 Dan E. Kelley wrote:
First, let me join the chorus of praise for R. (Hey, isn't somebody going to analyse all these praise emails in some statistical way?) I'm writing to point out an error in the file permissions in the linux/redhat version. (I'm using R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm, by the way.) The permissions in /usr/lib/R/doc/html aren't correct, since 'function.html' and 'packages.html' are both only readible by the owner (who is the system user, named 'root'), and not by normal users. Sure, I can fix this on my machine (and have, of course), but I thought it was worth pointing out so that somebody can tweak either the "spec" file that was used in generating the linux/redhat package, or perhaps the Makefile that I presume is being used by other R installers.
I don't have this problem: [root at xena i386]# rpm -Uvh R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm R-base ################################################## updating LibIndex for library /usr/lib/R/library ... updating HTML index ... [root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 177166 Mar 2 10:52 /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html [root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1481 Feb 29 12:34 /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html [root at xena i386]# umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx These files are built by the post-install script. My only guess is that you have changed the umask for root so that newly created files are not readable by other users. Martyn -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Thanks for the ideas. If it's okay for other folks, then of course I'm happy (since I just changed the permissions myself). It seems odd to me that only two files were affected. PS: root has umask of 066 on my system. There's no need to reply to this; I was just emailing in case it might help to find a bug in the installation procedure.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Martyn Plummer wrote:
On 01-Mar-00 Dan E. Kelley wrote:
First, let me join the chorus of praise for R. (Hey, isn't somebody going to analyse all these praise emails in some statistical way?) I'm writing to point out an error in the file permissions in the linux/redhat version. (I'm using R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm, by the way.) The permissions in /usr/lib/R/doc/html aren't correct, since 'function.html' and 'packages.html' are both only readible by the owner (who is the system user, named 'root'), and not by normal users. Sure, I can fix this on my machine (and have, of course), but I thought it was worth pointing out so that somebody can tweak either the "spec" file that was used in generating the linux/redhat package, or perhaps the Makefile that I presume is being used by other R installers.
I don't have this problem: [root at xena i386]# rpm -Uvh R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm R-base ################################################## updating LibIndex for library /usr/lib/R/library ... updating HTML index ... [root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 177166 Mar 2 10:52 /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html [root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1481 Feb 29 12:34 /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html [root at xena i386]# umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx These files are built by the post-install script. My only guess is that you have changed the umask for root so that newly created files are not readable by other users. Martyn
Dan E. Kelley internet: mailto:Dan.Kelley at Dal.CA Oceanography Department phone: (902)494-1694 Dalhousie University fax: (902)494-2885 Halifax, NS, CANADA, B3H 4J1 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._