<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">After installing the MacPorts package for macOS High Sierra, I discovered that the ownership of all system directories were changed to root:wheel. I can no longer build something simple as mtr without encountering the following error.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background-color: rgba(220, 223, 228, 0.952941);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SPIELPLATZ:~ mcc$ port install mtr</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background-color: rgba(220, 223, 228, 0.952941);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Error: Insufficient privileges to write to MacPorts install prefix.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); background-color: rgba(220, 223, 228, 0.952941);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SPIELPLATZ:~ mcc$ </span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">The version of mtr I built using the MacPorts package for macOS Sierra worked fine until I removed it. It now gets an error of not being able to obtain a raw socket.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">My CCC backup of my system disk made just after completing the upgrade to macOS shows all files in / owned by mcc:root. After installing the MacPorts package, all files in / are owned by root:wheel.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">--<br class="">Merton Campbell Crockett<br class=""><a href="mailto:m.c.crockett@roadrunner.com" class="">e-mail: m.c.crockett@roadrunner.com</a><br class="">mobile: 1(805)377-6762<br class=""></div></div>
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