Ownership of iw-home on Solaris

mike_jaixen

I have been working off and on with an upgrade of TeamSite to version 6.5 on Solaris 9. We are doing this install on a clean box. Twice now I've come to a halt because I don't have root access to the server and have been changing file ownerships to allow me to update configuration settings. Both times, I've apparantly changed a file ownership or permission on a file that TeamSite needs "just so". Support tells me to revert the permissions back to the original and leave them alone, which makes it impossible to work with if you don't have root access

I'm sure I'm not the first person to come across this problem; how do other enterprises do it? Any thoughts?

Adam Stoller

get sudo access.
if they won't give you sudo access - get another job -- it's not worth the hassle of trying to perform administrative tasks on a system where you're not given administrative abilities. Either that, or get a chair next to the system administrator and sit there with them telling them "do this, do that, now do this" throughout the entire installation process. You'll either get sudo priveleges, get released from your job, or find empty space around you as you just drove the sysadmin crazy and they had to take leave for medical reasons ;-)


--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com