20010516: 20010516: 20010515: McIDAS-X 7.7 build problems (cont.)

>From: Jason Law <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200105161557.f4GFvVp11235

>Tom,

>and I have changed the owner on the .cshrc file from root to mcidas so you
>have read and write permissions.

Everything in a user's account sound be owned by that user.  Your comment
seems to indicate that you intend to change the ownership of ~mcidas/.cshrc
back to root after I poke around.  You should _not_ do this.

>I did finally get the make command to
>work and it seemed to build the mcx, however I ran through the testing
>procedure and couldn't get mcidas to run.

I am betting on permissions/ownership.  Please see below.

>So again, I'm stuck.  I believe
>everything in the account setup for mcidas is set correctly, although if
>you think soemthing needs to be changed I can log on as root and change
>it.

This will be needed.  Please keep reading.

Here goes.  I logged on and immediately was confronted with the following
error message:

set: Variable name must begin with a letter.

This indicates that something in your .cshrc file was wrong.  At this
point I couldn't edit .cshrc since I had no PATH.  I manually set the
path so that vi could be found and edited .cshrc.  Here is what I found:

At the end of the file, you had:

set path=C$path /opt/SUNWspro/bin
set path=C$path /usr/ccs/bin

This should have been:

set path=($path /opt/SUNWspro/bin)
set path=($path /usr/ccs/bin)

I changed it; exited vi; and then made the .cshrc settings active:

source .cshrc

Now I have a workable environment.

The next thing I did was to list out the ownership of everything in the
top level directory:

pele 11% ls -alt
total 90192
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other       3656 May 16 12:11 .cshrc
drwxr-xr-x  13 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 20:02 .dt/
drwxr-x--x  17 mcidas   staff       1024 May 15 20:00 ./
drwx------   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 20:00 .solregis/
-rw-------   1 mcidas   staff         98 May 15 20:00 .Xauthority
-rw-r-----   1 root     other       3625 May 15 19:59 .cshrc%
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 19:51 .hotjava/
drwxr-xr-x  11 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:09 mcidas7.7/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 data/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 help/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 inc/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 lib/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 man/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 mcidas/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 savedata/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 tcl/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 workdata/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 admin/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 bin/
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other       9597 May 15 13:00 mcinet7.7.sh
-rwxr-x--x   1 mcidas   other       3090 May 15 13:00 mcinstall*
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other    45678969 May 15 13:00 mcidasx770.tar.Z
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other      15679 May 15 12:59 WHATSNEW.77X
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other        919 May 15 12:59 README
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other     239969 May 15 12:59 MAY00PRG.TXT
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other      65768 May 15 12:59 MAY00INQ.TXT
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other      73132 May 15 12:59 CHANGES.770
drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root         512 May 11 13:50 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     other        693 May 10 18:06 .mcenv
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mcidas   staff       5111 May 10 15:59 .dtprofile*

Note that some things are owned by 'mcidas' with a group of 'staff' (this
matches the entry in /etc/passwd), and other things are owned by
'mcidas' with group 'other'.  Additionally, the .mcenv directory
is owned by 'root'.  You need to set the owner of _everything_
under the mcidas HOME directory to be 'mcidas' and the group for
everything to be 'staff'.

You will change the owner/group of everthing as 'root':

su -
<password for root>
cd /home/pele/mcidas
chown -R mcidas:staff *
exit
 
This recursively changes the owner and group of everything (files and
directories) from where you are (/home/pele1/mcidas).

I ran 'chown -R mcidas:staff *' from /home/pele1/mcidas as 'mcidas' and
changed most files:

pele 29% chown -R mcidas:staff *
chown: config.log: Not owner
chown: confdefs.h: Not owner
chown: config.cache: Not owner
pele 30% ls -alt
total 90192
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other       3656 May 16 12:11 .cshrc
drwxr-xr-x  13 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 20:02 .dt/
drwxr-x--x  17 mcidas   staff       1024 May 15 20:00 ./
drwx------   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 20:00 .solregis/
-rw-------   1 mcidas   staff         98 May 15 20:00 .Xauthority
-rw-r-----   1 root     other       3625 May 15 19:59 .cshrc%
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 19:51 .hotjava/
drwxr-xr-x  11 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:09 mcidas7.7/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 data/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 help/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 inc/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 lib/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 man/
drwxr-xr-x   3 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 mcidas/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 savedata/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 tcl/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 workdata/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 admin/
drwxr-xr-x   2 mcidas   staff        512 May 15 13:05 bin/
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff       9597 May 15 13:00 mcinet7.7.sh
-rwxr-x--x   1 mcidas   staff       3090 May 15 13:00 mcinstall*
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff    45678969 May 15 13:00 mcidasx770.tar.Z
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff      15679 May 15 12:59 WHATSNEW.77X
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff        919 May 15 12:59 README
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff     239969 May 15 12:59 MAY00PRG.TXT
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff      65768 May 15 12:59 MAY00INQ.TXT
-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   staff      73132 May 15 12:59 CHANGES.770
drwxr-xr-x  11 root     root         512 May 11 13:50 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     other        693 May 10 18:06 .mcenv
-rwxr-xr-x   1 mcidas   staff       5111 May 10 15:59 .dtprofile*

You can see from the listing that there are files that still need to be
changed:

-rw-r-----   1 mcidas   other       3656 May 16 12:11 .cshrc
-rw-r-----   1 root     other       3625 May 15 19:59 .cshrc%
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     other        693 May 10 18:06 .mcenv

So, you still need to run the chown invocation as 'root' that I listed
above.

>Thanks again so much for helping me out, I never thought I'd have
>this much trouble trying to get a look at some of these GOES images!

Things would have been a lot smoother if you had not been broken into.

Tom