I think you are correct, Greg.<br>
I have never seen any other application which writes out side the prefix.<br>
As mark said the problem is with template_gis.<br>
i checked the options of postgis configuration,the default SYSCONFIG
directory is PREFIX/etc. Do u mean we need to mention it explicitly?<br>
Thanks<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Troxel</b> <<a href="mailto:gdt@ir.bbn.com">gdt@ir.bbn.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hmmm not sure why this is trying to write to /etc directly - it must be<br><br>I have had similar problems with files getting written in /etc during an<br>install under NetBSD and pkgsrc. I haven't figured out what's going on.
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