Re: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-07 Thread belahcene
An idea , may be !! in fact when you use su , without dash ( - ) , you log with the normal Environment and not with the root environment !!! try instead : su - , perhaps ?? any way since you are new to linux (or debian) I think it is better for you ( I repeat what I had said ) " I sug

RE: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-05 Thread james derry
Title: RE: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors) -Original Message- From: Joost Witteveen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri 11/5/2004 3:36 AM To: james derry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: permissions

Re: permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-05 Thread Joost Witteveen
james derry wrote: #hi, bela, #thanks for your reply. as a sanity check, i made sure that as root to run `apt-get upgrade` from root directory (/). same problem. #looking further, it seems the problem may have to do with root permissions problems, and not with apt-get or dpkg at all. logged in a

permissions problems in ssh session as root (WAS: apt-get install and upgrade errors)

2004-11-04 Thread james derry
#hi, bela, #thanks for your reply. as a sanity check, i made sure that as root to run `apt-get upgrade` from root directory (/). same problem. #looking further, it seems the problem may have to do with root permissions problems, and not with apt-get or dpkg at all. logged in as root on ssh, i c

Re: apt-get install and upgrade errors

2004-11-04 Thread belahcene
I suppose taht you do as a root ( super user)!!! notice that `./usr/bin/script' begins with a dot (./) , this means that it tried to creat usr/bin/script from the current and not from the root. go to the root : cd / and try it again ( in this case ./usr/bin/script is same as /usr/bin/script)

apt-get install and upgrade errors

2004-11-04 Thread james derry
#hi! i'm a newbie to debian/linux, and i recently took over admin of a system running 2.4.18. #this is my sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official sparc Binary-6 (20020719)$ deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official sparc Binary-5 (20020719)$ deb cdrom:[De