GRass and Super User Status

[William Voigt]

According the the Installation Guide, you must creat the software
directory ($GIS) and data directory ($GISDBASE) & then 
chown grass $GIS $GISDBASE.  GIS & GISDBASE must be set to real
directories (e.g., /usr/grass4.1 & /usr/grass.data).  This may be the
problem, since there is a differenec betw changing permission & changing
ownerships of directories & files.  The above instructions came prior to
running GISGEN.  Hope this helps.

-- Bill Voigt