> You only gave a partial answer. What user are you running as when you > get the error, and what user/group owns those dirs? > > Unless you are running as the user who owns /usr/portage or as root, you > will clearly get a permission denied. (and that assumes there are no > ACLs involved.)
Normally I do the updates as 'root'. ( su -l ) Root is/was set as the 'owner / group' on all three directories. Corbin
