[rancid] Upgrading Rancid

[heasley]

Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:41:39AM +0000, simon ben:
>  Dear All,
> I did the following to upgrade rancid from rancid 3.9 to 3.13
> downloaded the new tar file and unzip in /home/rancid/tar/rancid-3.13 and i try to run configure it gives me the below error
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid
> ./configure: line 1912: config.log: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 1922: config.log: Permission denied
> the permissions for the directory is as belowdrwxr-xr-x 8   7053 wheel    4096 Aug 23  2021 rancid-3.13

you extracted the tar file as root, which maintained the owner (uid 7053).
sudo chown -R <youruser> <the dir where configure is>