[R] tiny bug in R installation (redhat)

[Dan E. Kelley]

Thanks for the ideas.  If it's okay for other folks, then of course I'm   
happy (since I just changed the permissions myself).  It seems odd to me  
that only two files were affected.  PS: root has umask of 066 on my
system.

There's no need to reply to this; I was just emailing in case it
might help to find a bug in the installation procedure.


On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Martyn Plummer wrote:

> On 01-Mar-00 Dan E. Kelley wrote:
> > First, let me join the chorus of praise for R.  (Hey, isn't somebody going
> > to analyse all these praise emails in some statistical way?)
> > 
> > I'm writing to point out an error in the file permissions in the
> > linux/redhat version.  (I'm using R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm, by the way.)
> > 
> > The permissions in /usr/lib/R/doc/html aren't correct, since
> > 'function.html' and 'packages.html' are both only readible by the owner
> > (who is the system user, named 'root'), and not by normal users.
> > 
> > Sure, I can fix this on my machine (and have, of course), but I thought it
> > was worth pointing out so that somebody can tweak either the "spec"
> > file that was used in generating the linux/redhat package, or
> > perhaps the Makefile that I presume is being used by other R installers.
> 
> I don't have this problem:
> 
> [root at xena i386]# rpm -Uvh R-base-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
> R-base                      ##################################################
> updating LibIndex for library  /usr/lib/R/library ...
> updating HTML index ...
> [root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root       177166 Mar  2 10:52
> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/function.html
> [root at xena i386]# ls -l /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1481 Feb 29 12:34
> /usr/lib/R/doc/html/index.html
> [root at xena i386]# umask -S
> u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx
> 
> These files are built by the post-install script.  My only guess is that
> you have changed the umask for root so that newly created files are not
> readable by other users.
> 
> Martyn
> 

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