Permissions problem

[Vince Rice]

----- Original Message ----
From: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
To: Vince Rice <vr8ce at yahoo.com>
Cc: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 5:07:01 PM
Subject: Re: Permissions problem

> It's normal that everything is owned by root. You would use "sudo" before any port command 
> which modifies things, such as sync, selfupdate, upgrade, install, etc.

Wow, that was fast!

OK, I see that now. I did look in the docs before, but the examples I saw were for non-modification items, i.e. list, etc., and there was no sudo on the line. I took that to mean I didn't need it. Going back and looking, I see that it's on the install and other modifying lines.

Sorry for the noise, and thanks very much for the insanely quick response!