Hi and thanks for the advice. I had understood however that -rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write permissions. I could of course change ownership but why have I not had this issue before?
On 02/09/2015 07:18 PM, artisticforge . wrote: > hello > If you are running /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer as anyone other than > root and /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer is attempting to update itself the > error you are receiving to correct. No one except root has "write" > premissions on /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer > > You need to provide the exact command line that you are using that > cause the error. > > it does appear that /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer is attempting to update > itself and failing miserably > > > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Budge <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have managed to mess up my RAID configuration and have taken advantage >> to install new drives and upgrade OS so am installing GiP ab initio >> following wiki instructions to the letter. Two questions:- >> >> Is the github .../wiki/release291 the one to install?\ >> >> I have a problem with permissions/ownership. I have followed wiki and >> put file in /usr/local/bin (which is in path) but when I try to run from >> cli in bash I get >> >> ERROR: /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer is not writable - aborting update >> (maybe a package manager was used to install get_iplayer?). I am logged >> in correctly as user and the permissions are -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root >> 423921 Feb 9 18:16 get_iplayer, which tells me that user should be able >> to write. Is it an environment issue or am I just losing it? Never had >> this problem before. >> >> Budgie >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> get_iplayer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
