Re: [LTP] [PATCH] LTP must be extracted to an accessible location

[Subrata M. <su...@li...>]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 11:48 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: 
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:51:29 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > --- a/INSTALL
> > > +++ b/INSTALL
> > > @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ contributions are welcome.
> > >  2. Untar the ltp tarball into a spare directory.  There is not a
> > >     standard location for it yet.  We put it in our home directory
> > >     while we're working on it.
> > > +   Note that this location must be accessible for unprivileged users, as
> > > +   some tests are run as a different user than root.  Hence /root is not a
> > > +   good choice on several distributions.
> > 
> > i would use the phrase "full path to this location".  non-root could access 
> > ./foo/, but it could not access $PWD/foo/ ...
> > -mike
> 
> Thanks, that's indeed better!
> 
> >From 741d03a6753015ba6373d1f629f4117f978d6129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Gee...@so...>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:24:59 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] LTP must be extracted to an accessible location
> 
> If extracted to /root and /root has permissions 750, the following
> tests will fail:
> 
>   - cron02:
> 
>     bash: /root/ltp-cvs/testcases/bin/cron_pos_tests.sh: Permission denied
> 
>   - cron_allow01:
> 
>     bash: /root/ltp-cvs/testcases/bin/cron_allow01: Permission denied
>     bash: /root/ltp-cvs/testcases/bin/cron_allow01: Permission denied
> 
>   - cron_deny01:
> 
>     bash: /root/ltp-cvs/testcases/bin/cron_deny01: Permission denied
>     bash: /root/ltp-cvs/testcases/bin/cron_deny01: Permission denied
> 
>   - su01:
> 
>     bash: /root/ltp-cvs/testcases/bin/su01_s1: Permission denied
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Gee...@so...>

Thanks.

Regards--
Subrata

> ---
>  INSTALL |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
> index 98883fb..73ff29c 100644
> --- a/INSTALL
> +++ b/INSTALL
> @@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ contributions are welcome.
>  2. Untar the ltp tarball into a spare directory.  There is not a
>     standard location for it yet.  We put it in our home directory
>     while we're working on it.
> +   Note that the full path to this location must be accessible for
> +   unprivileged users, as some tests are run as a different user than root.
> +   Hence /root is not a good choice on several distributions.
>  
>  3. Run "make" to build everything.
>     *NOTE: Some of the Makefiles (example: pan/Makefile) require the lex (or