Re: Permission Problem

2002-12-26 Thread Reynald I. Ngo
At 11:20 PM 12/26/2002 -0800, j_post wrote: Hi, I'm running it as root. Either 'su' and do it as root, or (as root) "chmod a+w /usr/sbin", then update as a regular user. Users don't normally have write permission for /usr/sbin. --- Cheers, Reynald I. Ngo -- redhat-list mailing lis

Re: Permission Problem

2002-12-26 Thread j_post
On Thursday 26 December 2002 09:52 pm, you wrote: > Updating /usr/sbin/postalias... > mv: cannot move `/usr/local/src/postfix-2.0.0/junk' to > `/usr/sbin/postalias': Permission denied > make: *** [upgrade] Error 1 > Either 'su' and do it as root, or (as root) "chmod a+w /usr/sbin", then update a

Re: permission problem

2002-10-16 Thread Jacques Lederer
Hello, seems to me like with your chmod 0600 you are trying to make this file non executable, which is not a good idea. According to the existing rights on this file you have the permission to edit it as root. What is happening when you try to edit it with vi?   Jacques

Re: permission problem

2002-10-15 Thread Mike Burger
Good point...I missed the # in the prompt. Oops. On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, k.clair wrote: > Judging by the prompt, they are logged in as root. > > if you are root, try this: > > lsattr /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > (and man lsattr might be useful too :) ) > > there are another level of permissions that

Re: permission problem

2002-10-15 Thread k.clair
Judging by the prompt, they are logged in as root. if you are root, try this: lsattr /etc/rc.d/rc.local (and man lsattr might be useful too :) ) there are another level of permissions that it is possible to use, though often those permissions are not used. kristina On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07

Re: permission problem

2002-10-15 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Blaq hacka wrote: > hi all > > [root@hacka test]# ls -al /etc/rc.d/rc.local > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 961 Oct 15 10:17 /etc/rc.d/rc.local > [root@hacka test]# chmod 0600 /etc/rc.d/rc.local > chmod: /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Operation not permitted > > i want to edi