On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +0000, P Kirk wrote: > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted
Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM: "The filesystem containing oldpath and newpath does not support the creation of hard links." and "oldpath is a directory.". What does "ls -ld /usr/info/dir" say? -- "Perhaps they spent some of the time writing the patent application. That task was surely harder than thinking of the technique." RMS on Amazon's 1-Click(R) patent, http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=13652