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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!udcf.gla.ac.uk!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Annoying pkg_add feature Message-ID: <DH2MH4.335@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:36:37 GMT Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh Lines: 10 I changed the permission and group on the subdirectories of /usr/local to allow group write, which is what I want. However pkg_add keeps changing them back! This doesn't seem like reasonable default behaviour... -- Richard -- "... we were extremely sceptical, like most people, about 'conspiracy theories of history' ..." - The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail