On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:01:11PM +0000, Adam Cooper wrote:
> Ok the problem now seems pretty severe. As Root (not su but logging in
> as) I am unable to write to /usr/local/bin. In /etc/fstab it's mounted
> (/usr/local is on it's own partition) as "defaults".
>
> How can i get access to this space. The permissions of the files are
> -rwxr-xr-x (755). The exact message is "Operation not permitted"
>
Try creating a symlink in /usr/local/bin/ outside of the install routine .
. . just run something like 'touch foo; ln -sf foo /usr/local/bin/' and see
if you get any error messages then. You'll want to run this as root as
well. In addition, check to verify that you do indeed have drive space
available on that partition.
- jkt
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