On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 13:37, Jay Turner wrote: > 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. OK this is that readout (su root) of /usr/local/bin: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Feb 9 12:51 bin I am definitely as root: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel) Trying this: > touch foo; ln -sf foo /usr/local/bin/ Results in this: ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/bin/foo' to `foo': Operation not permitted I'm tearing my hair out over this. Surely as root I can do any thing I want. Which is what "drwxr-xr-x" also tells me. Thanks Adam Cooper PS if it helps heres my fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1/mnt /windows ntfs ro,noauto,users,gid=501,umask=0227 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr/local vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
