[Biopython] Permissions for Bio, BioSQL, Martel

Finsen Chiu fchiu at newton.berkeley.edu
Wed Sep 16 20:00:18 EDT 2009


I am using RHEL4

I built and installed as root and both went smoothly without interruption.

Running the test as root is fine, but the permission denied errors came 
when running the test as a user.

So, I wonder if I need to give users write permission to those files 
(which I am not wanting to do) or if those errors are negligible.

Thanks,

Finsen

Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What OS are you using? And did you try just the normal installation:
>
> python setup.py build
> python setup.py test
> sudo python setup.py install
>
> That would normally work on Linux/Unix.
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Finsen Chiu <fchiu at newton.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I also tried doing a umask 022 before installing and encountered write
>> permission for non-root users, as followed:
>>
>> ======================================================================
>> ERROR: test_Clustalw_tool
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'Clustalw/temp horses.fasta'
>>     
> etc
>
> The above could happens if you did the build and test as sudo, and
> the temp test files were left behind (e.g. if interrupted). If you later
> rerun the tests as a normal user you can't delete them (because they
> belong to root).
>
> Peter
>
>   


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