On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jim Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I execute a find / -name some.file as root, I always get the error
> message: 'find: /proc/5/fd permission denied' whether I find some.file
> or not. Why?
>
> I'm running rh6.0 intel.
>
Two reasons:
1: /proc isn't a "real" file system. it's an image of what's running
RIGHT NOW.
2: RH is probably trying to protect you from yourself. If you mess
with /proc, you really risk messing something up, so I think /proc is
set up so that you really have to WORK to access it in any way.
Don't worry about it. Just ignore the "permission denied" when it's
on /proc and go on with your search. :-)
John
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