From Jori.Mantysalo at uta.fi  Mon Jul  3 11:55:56 2006
From: Jori.Mantysalo at uta.fi (Jori.Mantysalo at uta.fi)
Date: Mon,  3 Jul 2006 11:55:56 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Installation, permissions of /usr/local/lib/R (PR#9054)
Message-ID: <20060703095556.83A4553B61@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>>> make install
>>>
>>> and everything works except that /usr/local/lib/R/etc/ldpaths was not readable
>>> as normal user.

> More likely, the umask setting was too restrictive during make
> install. AFAIR, "umask 022" (i.e. no write permission for anyone
> except user, but read and execute allowed) is needed to enable
> non-root users to run R. Some systems set it differently, and we're
> not overriding that since it could be a policy issue. It's not a bug.

Yep, umask was 077. Maybe 'make install' might warn about that after 
installation?

-- 
Jori M?ntysalo



[Rd] Installation, permissions of /usr/local/lib/R (PR#9054)
Jori.Mantysalo at uta.fi