From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5219 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2008 13:37:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 5028 invoked by uid 48); 4 Feb 2008 13:36:46 -0000 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20080204133646.5027.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "ananth at in dot ibm dot com" To: systemtap@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20080201083922.5705.ananth@in.ibm.com> References: <20080201083922.5705.ananth@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug runtime/5705] Need more descriptive error messages on non-root systemtap invocation X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00202.txt.bz2 ------- Additional Comments From ananth at in dot ibm dot com 2008-02-04 13:36 ------- Created an attachment (id=2229) --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2229&action=view) create stapusr and stapdev groups if they don't exist Adding it to the normal build process rather than %post would make sense for users who'd want to locally build and install systemtap. How about this totally untested patch to create the stapdev and stapusr groups at install time. I am not too familiar with fiddling with Makefiles, but again, something akin to what this does would be good. (The script snippet is adapted from Tom Callaway's RPM packaging guidelines handout from Foss.in/2007). -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5705 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.