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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:00:09
Message-Id: 201007282252.31933.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file by Andrey Vul
1 On Wednesday 28 July 2010 22:20:17 Andrey Vul wrote:
2 > Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
3 > /tmp/foo => strerror(ENOENT)).
4 > However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.
5 > df -i shows only 2% inode usage.
6 > Any explanation as to why a rwx-ed dir can't be written to? This is
7 > breaking quite a few of the init scripts.
8 >
9 > --
10 > Andrey Vul
11 > begin-base64 600 sig
12 > bXNuLCBob21lOiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ0KdSBvZiB0OiBhbmRyZXkudnVsQHV0b3J
13 > v bnRvLmNhDQpzbXMsIHZvaWNlbWFpbDogNDE2MzAzOTkyMw0K
14 > `
15 > end
16
17 sounds like / is mounted read-only
18
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21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] dir is rwx but can't create file Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>