Promptly fix it. I think I may have chmod to take away world-writable  
attribute... my bad.
I understand the part of 'readable', not sure why it has to be  
writable by everyone.

Stata Tech Support, is the license file /usr/local/stata/9/.license/ 
stata.sim needs to be writable by anyone ?


Thanks,
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On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:16 PM, David Woods wrote:

> I was trying to run Stata and get the message:
> The license-tracking file
>    /usr/local/stata9/.license/stata.sim
> could not be opened for writing
>
> This file is actually /software/stata/9/.license/stata.sim and is  
> owned by
> root with no write permissions for anyone else.
>
> From the stata web site, it looks like this file needs to readable and
> writable by all stata users and that this is done as part of the  
> install?  I
> couldn't find any info about what user should actually own the file.
>
> Dave