[Please don't top post] On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:09:02PM +0000, John L. Ries wrote: > I guess my first question would be why the script below has anything to do > with /opt. I don't see a change of directory to anything under that > directory and I would assume this is running in some directory you own. > > > System directory permissions are sometimes changed during software updates; > annoying, but true. I sometimes have to change permissions on /usr/local/src > for that reason.
That would seem like a serious bug, the package manager doesn't touch the local tree. I'm guessing it was a 3rd party application which you compiled/installed which of course the package manager has no control over. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X