From heas at shrubbery.net  Thu Nov  2 15:26:43 2023
From: heas at shrubbery.net (heasley)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 15:26:43 +0000
Subject: [rancid] Upgrading Rancid
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Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:41:39AM +0000, simon ben:
>  Dear All,
> I did the following to upgrade rancid from rancid 3.9 to 3.13
> downloaded the new tar file and unzip in /home/rancid/tar/rancid-3.13 and i try to run configure it gives me the below error
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid
> ./configure: line 1912: config.log: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 1922: config.log: Permission denied
> the permissions for the directory is as belowdrwxr-xr-x 8?? 7053 wheel??? 4096 Aug 23? 2021 rancid-3.13

you extracted the tar file as root, which maintained the owner (uid 7053).
sudo chown -R <youruser> <the dir where configure is>