On 9 February 2015 at 20:50, Budge <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
That says that the owner has write permission. But who is the owner? ls -l /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer will tell you. Most likely the owner is root, as you probably used sudo to put the file there. Colin > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
