Re: st: Updating Stata on a Unix box without logging in as root

[Ulrich Kohler <kohler@wzb.eu>]

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You can change the ownership of the files in the Stata directory to
yourself. Assuming that Stata is installed in /usr/local/stata11, a
brute force solution is 

$ cd /usr/local
$ find stata11* -exec sudo chown kohler '{}' ';'

Many regards

Uli

PS: Thanks Michael for  http://xkcd.com/149/ . I will try that out this
evening with my 16 years old son ;-)



Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 22:57 -0400 schrieb Partha Deb:
> And thanks, Shige, but I'm still hoping that my vague memory of another 
> solution, which involved making Stata aware that it was okay for a user 
> (other than root) to invoke update, is correct.
> 
> Partha
> 
> On 10/4/2010 10:01 PM, Michael N. Mitchell wrote:
> > This reminds me of this comic http://xkcd.com/149/ . I know this is 
> > tangential, but I hope worth a good laugh.
> >
> > Michael N. Mitchell
> > Data Management Using Stata      - 
> > http://www.stata.com/bookstore/dmus.html
> > A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics - 
> > http://www.stata.com/bookstore/vgsg.html
> > Stata tidbit of the week         - http://www.MichaelNormanMitchell.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2010-10-04 6.34 PM, Shige Song wrote:
> >> Use sudo.
> >>
> >> Shige
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Partha 
> >> Deb<partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu>  wrote:
> >>> I have a box running Suse Linus on which I have Stata-MP 11 installed.
> >>>   Although I have administrator (root) privileges, I'd like to be 
> >>> able to
> >>> update Stata when I'm logged in as me.  I know I set this up on my 
> >>> old box,
> >>> but I can't, for the life of me, find any hint of how I did it.  
> >>> Your help
> >>> will be most appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers.
> >>>
> >>> Partha
> >>>
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