Hey need help on Pear installation chapter 15

nawar youssef · December 20th, 2011, 01:37 AM

I installed or I started running the Pear from my terminal on Mac and I tried to instal the package Net_UserAgent_Detect but I got an error says something about the line 835 in pearl.php about the touch() function, so I went to that file but I have no idea what should I know!!!! anybody can help thx,
this is the error shows in the terminal :

Code:

Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /usr/lib/php/.lock because Permission denied in /usr/lib/php/PEAR/Registry.php on line 835
could not create lock file: fopen(/usr/lib/php/.lock): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

UseLess · December 21st, 2011, 07:04 AM

Greetings,

Whatever user php is running as on your system needs the appropriate permissions to be able to create files in the 'usr/lib/php' directory.

nawar youssef · December 21st, 2011, 07:47 PM

Thanks of replaying, but how can I give or get those promotions? I have no idea how to do that.
thx

UseLess · December 22nd, 2011, 06:32 AM

Greetings,

Try: a google search as a starting point.

nawar youssef · December 22nd, 2011, 06:34 PM

but I found the registery.php file which the error inside it in the line 835 as the error message shows, and this is the code insid the file

PHP Code:


			
 $open_mode = 'w';

        // XXX People reported problems with LOCK_SH and 'w'

        if ($mode === LOCK_SH || $mode === LOCK_UN) {

            if (!file_exists($this->lockfile)) {

                touch($this->lockfile);

            }

            $open_mode = 'r';

        }

there is some rported problems with lock_sh and 'w' do you have any idea how to fix it ? maybe we can change the 'w' to something else ????
thanks

UseLess · December 23rd, 2011, 01:29 PM

Greetings,

Are you still getting the error in your first post?

If you are then the problem is with the permissions on the directory, php does not have the permissions to write to the directory to create the file, correct the permissions issue and it will work.

If you do not know how to set the permissions then I suggest you do some reading on how your operating system works when working with files and directories. Use the link to Google I gave you previously as a starting point.

nawar youssef · December 23rd, 2011, 10:54 PM

thx you for trying helping me, but I could not find a way, I read almost all the links I couldn't have found the solution. I am gonna give up,
Can I start reading the next chapter ( ch 16 ) without reading the ch 15 ????
if so I am going to move on and continue, if not I don't know what to do.

by the way I am using XAMPP not MAMP, and I have Mac OS X not snow board.