From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 30 6:57:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (unix-gw.gihs.sa.edu.au [203.63.40.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46B237BA3B for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.reid@plug.cx) Received: from popadl-08-006.picknowl.com.au (firewall.gihs.sa.edu.au [192.168.1.1]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0BC2B7E4; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:46:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: wierd build error with -current From: Andrew Reid To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010629144534.D13977-100000@wonky.feral.com> References: <20010629144534.D13977-100000@wonky.feral.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10.99 (Preview Release) Date: 30 Jun 2001 23:18:42 +0930 Message-Id: <993908924.18111.5.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Jun 2001 14:46:38 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > I now mount my /usr/src read-only. That should work? Ask yourself the question: "I've mounted a filesystem read-only. Should I be able to write to that filesystem?". > I'm now getting: [ .. ] > Permission denied > > This is strange. Is this an NFS error? What? It's not at all strange. You're trying to write to a read-only filesystem. - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message