Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263655AbVBCPpZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:45:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263195AbVBCPnp (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:43:45 -0500 Received: from alog0137.analogic.com ([208.224.220.152]:9600 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263142AbVBCPnb (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:43:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:43:26 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Tim Schmielau cc: Pankaj Agarwal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Net Subject: Re: Query - Regarding strange behaviour. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <001501c509ff$d4be02e0$8d00150a@dreammac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1246 Lines: 28 On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Pankaj Agarwal wrote: > >> In my system there's a strange behaviour.... its not allowing me to create >> any file in /usr/bin even as root. Its chmod is set to 755. Its even not >> allowing me to change the chmod value of /usr/bin. The strangest part which >> i felt is ...its shows the owner and group as root when i issue command >> "ls -ld /usr/bin" and not allowing root to create any file or directory >> under /usr/bin and not even allowing to change the chmod value. The error is >> access permission denied... I can change the chmod value of /usr and other >> directories under /usr/...but not of bin.... > > Maybe /usr is mounted read-only? Hmmm, are distros still 'slicing up' the root file-system? Good point! Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.10 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/