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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 14:08:57 CDT

Yeah,
  I was thinking the same thing. I could change the installation script
to force it to change ownership as was suggested. Of course, the tricky
part there is deciding which group to use, since different versions of
Unix have different groups. Most have "bin" though, so that might be a
good choice.

  John

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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:03:29 -0400
From: Robert Campbell <rlc_at_k2.med.jhmi.edu>
To: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Problem with instalation process

On 2002-06-07 11:42 you wrote:
>
> Dear Rui,
> We'll look into this, thanks for the heads up on this.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:17:25AM +0000, jrui_at_ci.uc.pt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I unpacked the tar.gz file, edited and run the configure script as a regular
> > user.
> > Then I did "su" to gain root access, "cd" to src and run "make install".
> > The owner of the new files in $install_library_dir is root, except for the
> > directories plugins and scripts (and files therein), that are owned by the
> > regular user.
> > It is necessary to "chown -R root.sys plugins scripts" to change files to the
> > correct ownership.
> > I am using IRIX 6.5 and VMD 1.7.1 and 1.8.vmd 1.8a10.
> > Do you think there is a bug in instation process?

I think this is just the consequence of being the root user when you use
tar. By default as the root user, tar will extract the files and
maintain the user and group id that was used to create the tar file.
The "new files in the $install_library_dir" were created by you by
copying as root, so therefore are owned by root.

Cheers,
Robert 

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