Single user installation (Standalone)

Single user installation (Standalone)

[Hagmann Jörg]

Hi,

I noticed that when updating the "suite" in my home directory I need to be a superuser. If not, I get:

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! I can't write on file `cont-en.log'.
Please type another transcript file name: 
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Operating system: Mac 10.6.8

Is it ok to change the wiki accordingly?

Cheers, Jörg
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Re: Single user installation (Standalone)

[Taco Hoekwater]

On Nov 18, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Hagmann Jörg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that when updating the "suite" in my home directory I need to be a superuser. If not, I get:
> 
> ----------------
> ! I can't write on file `cont-en.log'.
> Please type another transcript file name: 
> ----------------
> 
> Operating system: Mac 10.6.8


Not for me, and afaict, it has never happened to me before. Except … when at some point you have run ./first-update or context --make as superuser, then the files from that run will be owned by the superuser from then on. My guess is that some of the files inside your local context tree are no longer owned by you. 

You could wipe the install (as superuser) and retry. Or, if you are familiar with unix file handling, you could (as superuser) reassign the affected files to your own user account from within Terminal, like this

First, check the output of this:

  $ sudo find <contextinstallroot> -not -user <youraccount>

Then run:

  $ sudo find <contextinstallroot> -not -user <youraccount> -exec chown <youraccount>  \{\} \;

Best wishes,
Taco
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Re: Single user installation (Standalone)

[Hagmann Jörg]

> Not for me, and afaict, it has never happened to me before. Except … when at some point you have run ./first-update or context --make as superuser, then the files from that run will be owned by the superuser from then on. My guess is that some of the files inside your local context tree are no longer owned by you.

I probably did that long ago.

> You could wipe the install (as superuser) and retry. Or, if you are familiar with unix file handling, you could (as superuser) reassign the affected files to your own user account from within Terminal, like this
> 
> First, check the output of this:
> 
>  $ sudo find <contextinstallroot> -not -user <youraccount>
> 
> Then run:
> 
>  $ sudo find <contextinstallroot> -not -user <youraccount> -exec chown <youraccount>  \{\} \;

Thanks, I learned a couple of new tricks.

Cheers, Jörg
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