Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:37:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> Cc: matthew zeier <matthew@intelenet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unable to do 'make install' - mv error Message-ID: <20001006183733.L272@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010061829370.58954-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>; from takhus@takhus.mind.net on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:31:48PM -0700 References: <20001006180715.J272@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010061829370.58954-100000@takhus-home.ashlandfn.org>
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* Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> [001006 18:32] wrote: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * matthew zeier <matthew@intelenet.net> [001006 18:00] wrote: > > > > > > What does this mean? > > > > > > > > > rose# make install > > > chflags noschg /kernel > > > chflags: /kernel: Operation not permitted > > > *** Error code 1 (ignored) > > > mv /kernel /kernel.old > > > mv: rename /kernel to /kernel.old: Operation not permitted > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > > > > Did I leave something out of my current kernel? How do I fix it? > > > > If you've raised securelevel, which it looks like you did, you need > > to bring the box into single usermode to fix this. > > > > -- > > Of course, the first thing to check is to make sure you are root > (or some other uid 0 equivalent). Also make sure that your / > partition is not mounted read-only. While EPERM is possible if the user is not root (his prompt is '#' which almost universally means "you're root, watch your step") EPERM should not be reported by chflags if the filesystem is read-only, that would be EROFS (Read-only file system.). -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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