[wellylug] repository timed out issues

[Sebastian]

aloha...

* Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> [2006-06-24 13:03 +1200]:
> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 12:01 +1200, Sebastian wrote:

[...]

> > also, you might want to change the access rights of the newly created
> > directory with something like 'chmod 777 /usr/share/yourdir' or change
> > its owner/group to your user, e.g. 'chown user /usr/share/yourdir'.
> 
> whilst this can be done, it's usually a bad idea, as any other user
> could then change the files.
> 
> If you just want to install it, and be able to run it as a normal user,
> use:
> ----
> chmod 755 /usr/share/yourdir
> ----
> 
> This makes it so only root can write, but any user can read.

actually, creating files manually in /usr/share is discouraged as this
is the domain of the package management and you might get in its way
someday. more often, files are put under /usr/local (or /usr/local/share
in Steve's case), though he might have special needs for putting it into
/usr/share.

bye,
 Sebastian

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