5.0beta8 bin directory read/write permissions?

I have a binary install of 5.0beta8 installed to
/usr/local/grass-5.0b on a Debian potato linux box.
This directory is not writable (except by root). I
just tried to run r.watershed and it failed with the
following message:

SECTION 1 beginning: Initiating Variables. 6 sections
total
    segments in row: 622
segments in columns: 277
     total segments: 172294
      open segments: 213
WARNING: No such file or directory
WARNING: seg_open(): could not write segment file

ERROR: <</usr/local/grass-5.0b/etc/water/seg
el="elv@elwha" t=1000000
       ba="basins" ac="flowacc" se="streams"
ha="halfbasin" di="flowdisp"
       S="steepness" r=0 ms=150>> command line failed

It appears that it tried to write into /usr . Do I
need to move the grass binaries to a directory where
it can write to itself?

g.manual also fails due to a permission problem. Is
this related?

Thanks for any help you can give

David Finlayson

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 08:32:19AM -0700, David Finlayson wrote:

I have a binary install of 5.0beta8 installed to
/usr/local/grass-5.0b on a Debian potato linux box.
This directory is not writable (except by root). I
just tried to run r.watershed and it failed with the
following message:

SECTION 1 beginning: Initiating Variables. 6 sections
total
    segments in row: 622
segments in columns: 277
     total segments: 172294
      open segments: 213
WARNING: No such file or directory
WARNING: seg_open(): could not write segment file

ERROR: <</usr/local/grass-5.0b/etc/water/seg
el="elv@elwha" t=1000000
       ba="basins" ac="flowacc" se="streams"
ha="halfbasin" di="flowdisp"
       S="steepness" r=0 ms=150>> command line failed

It appears that it tried to write into /usr . Do I
need to move the grass binaries to a directory where
it can write to itself?

No usually they are working in the database directory.
(I assume that you have started grass correctly with the main
grass5 script.)

g.manual also fails due to a permission problem. Is
this related?

I don't think so.
Try to set the PAGER variable to something useful and try g.manual
again.

  Bernhard

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