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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:44:17 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "fire jotawski" <jotawski@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make readmes errors
Message-ID:  <443aqfiyq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <c583719d0803240857n4788d37bybef299facfa0465@mail.gmail.com> (fire jotawski's message of "Mon\, 24 Mar 2008 22\:57\:59 %2B0700")
References:  <c583719d0803230235g68859b30ha35b19420b14079e@mail.gmail.com> <44od94gody.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <c583719d0803240857n4788d37bybef299facfa0465@mail.gmail.com>

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"fire jotawski" <jotawski@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lowell Gilbert <
> freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
>
>> "fire jotawski" <jotawski@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE#3:
>> > Fri Mar  7 03:20:47 ICT 2008
>> > root@siting.oaep.go.th:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING
>> > i386
>> > i try making README.html for all ports but get errors at the last state
>> as
>> >
>> > Creating README.html for all ports
>> > /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes : Permission denied
>> > *** Error code 126
>> >
>> > please help me in makeing readme.html
>> > thanks in advance for any hints.
>>
>> Sounds like the user running the command doesn't have permissions to
>> write into the port directories.
>>
>
>
> no sirs, i use root account for running that command.  anywym i try running
> again with user root.

Even for the root user, there are other possible privilege problems.
You could be running over NFS, with the UID getting remapped.  
There could be file flags set on some of the files you are changing.



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