Re: running pear as non-root

Thanks for the help, we've fixed the problem. Greg "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no> wrote in message news:1042164930.1191.199.camel@kirin.trondheim.fast.no... > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 02:49, Greg Beaver wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to package phpDocumentor, and the command "pear package" will not > > work because I am not root on joshuaeichorn.com, and so permissions are > > wrong. Josh has upgraded everything to the latest version (including > > Archive_Tar, thanks for the fix). > > > > I understand the security concerns. Perhaps allowing pear package would be > > possible for the next release? Even if a separate script is included just > > for users that allows only package, or pear is set to only install in the > > user's dir any new pear packages. > > Check the script permissions. The "umask" config parameter had a bad > default value. Upgrading to PEAR 1.0.1 should help too. > > - Stig >