From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 6 17:24:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA16181 for current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA16015 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id CAA18527; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 02:14:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.org (8.8.8/8.8.5/pb-19970302) id CAA26059; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 02:13:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19980107021334.TJ03605@@> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 02:13:34 +0100 From: pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: funny ETXTBSY problem References: <19980106212739.HR12419@@> <5665.884133396@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5665.884133396@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jan 6, 1998 16:36:36 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > jkh@whisker-> cp /bin/sh /tmp > cp: /tmp/sh: Permission denied > > Hmmm. I thought it was only supposed to refuse this request if somebody > *else* tried to replace my file in /tmp! :-) Yes, I almost got caught by this one too, but "rm" had hinted to me just before that it might simply be that the w bit is not set on /tmp/sh after cp :-) $ rm /tmp/sh2 override r-xr-xr-x pb/bin for /tmp/sh2? y -- Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org