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Check your installation

To check that your installation has all the correct permissions and group ownerships, you should run the check_perms script:
% cd $prefix
% bin/check_perms

Don't try to run check_perms from the source directory; it will only run from the install (i.e. $prefix) directory.

If this reports no problems, then it's very likely that your installation is set up correctly :) If it reports problems, then you can either fix them manually, re-run the installation, or use check_perms to fix the problems (probably the easiest solution):

  • You need to become the user that did the installation (and that owns all the files in $prefix), or root.
  • Run bin/check_perms -f
  • Repeat previous step until no more errors are reported!