v.digit/v.support

[Melissa Records]

In an E-mail message, Keith Mitchell wrote:
> 
> We have a minor problem with running v.support
> on maps that have been worked on in v.digit.
> The ownership of the file under dig_att is
> converted to root and the group is converted
> to daemon; V.support can not write to the file
> in this state and exits with an error.  It
> is relatively easy to change the ownerships
> but this is rather crude and irritating.
> I'd appreciate the real solution.
> 

Yikes!  I thought that this bug would have been fixed ages ago.  
Sounds suspiciously what I ran across last year when testing out 
a new installation of GRASS.  Here's the problem and solution 
that we ended up using.  Maybe you have the same problem.

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There appears to be some incorrect information in the GRASS 4.0
Installation Guide.  We discovered that when a person digitized,
the resulting files were ALWAYS owned by root, even though the
person was not logged in as root.  Mark Johnson was able to talk 
us through a fix, namely, where in the installation guide it says 
to:

  chown root */digit  

it should really say:

  chown grass */digit.