Re: how to check for file in the user's Documents
Re: how to check for file in the user's Documents
- Subject: Re: how to check for file in the user's Documents
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:18:17 +0200
Assuming you are installing items in both / and ˜, the usual solution
is from the postinstall script to run the commands that needs to be
run as the current user with sudo -c.
/usr/bin/su $USER -c "/bin/mkdir your_parameters"
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Ann K. Blombach <email@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I actually realized this morning that I could do
> that, and it did indeed solve the problem.
>
> But now I have a new problem. I really want to create a work folder in the
> user's Documents, but I end up with a folder that won't allow the user to
> write to the files in that folder, which is useless for what's supposed to
> be the user's work folder. The "system" has read/write privileges, and
> that's it. (Yes, I know the user *should* be able to set up his/her own
> work folder, but many of our users can't--if the installer can do it for
> them, it cuts down a LOT on our tech support workload.)
>
> I tried doing it two different ways with a script:
>
> mkdir -m=rwxr-xr-x /${HOME}/Documents/"AppName Work Folder" and that
> produces a folder that isn't openable or readable by anyone.
>
> mkdir -m=rwxrwxrwxr /${HOME}/Documents/"AppName Work Folder" and that
> produces the folder that only the "system" can read and write to.
>
> I was able to use Packages (I assume that's yours, Stephane--in which case,
> thanks you!) to set up a usable work folder in the Users/Shared folder, but
> I fear with our users, that won't be of any use at all because they'll never
> understand how to find that folder. And my script doesn't work any better
> with Packages than it worked with PackageMaker.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ann
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Sudre [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 4:30 PM
> To: Ann K. Blombach
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: how to check for file in the user's Documents
>
> Interesting challenge from the "File exists" (JavaScript) point of view.
>
> An alternate solution would be to use a shell script requirement (simple if
> [ -f ]; blah blah fi script) to check for the existence of
> ~/Documents/thefile.
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ann K. Blombach <email@hidden> wrote:
>> My installer needs to check to see whether a file is already in the
>> user's Documents folder. How do I specify the Directory of the user's
>> Documents folder? ${HOME}/Documents works fine for unix commands, but
>> not in PackageMaker using the "File exists on Target" requirement, but
>> I don't know how to specify the target) or Perl (searching for a file,
>> but I need to know how to specify the Directory). All I need is the
>> magic syntax that will do the same thing ${HOME}/Documents does in
>> unix. Doesn't matter whether it's in PackageMaker or in Perl. Thanks.
>
> --
> Packaging Resources - http://s.sudre.free.fr/Packaging.html
>
>
>
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