From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-11-19T16:30:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling a bash script creates files as UID 501 ?

On 18.11.2010 18:32, John W Higgins wrote:

> It does appear that the tarball maybe comes from OSX where 501 is a well
> known user id and therefore normally exists. I have CentOS boxes that appear
> to start at 501 and Gentoo boxes that appear to start at 1001 so it's just
> an oversight in the install script you are looking at but it's not something
> I would loose sleep over - and if you are inclined to do so then just run
> the chown command above.

Granted, this can easily be fixed with chown.  I'm not sure I understand 
how this can produce the difference between

system "/usr/local/rvm/src/rvm/scripts/install --prefix /usr/local/rvm/"

and

sudo /usr/local/rvm/src/rvm/scripts/install --prefix /usr/local/rvm/

when the script apparently also uses sudo.  Do you have an explanation?

Kind regards

	robert

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