It's hard to imagine, but... is the /var filesystem mounted readonly? The error doesn't look like directory permissions, but filesystem issues.
run the 'mount' command and inspect any filesystems with a portion of '/var/' in the mountpath, and/or do not contain 'rw' in the mount options. On 10/26/2011 09:43 AM, Ann wrote: > I have a customer with an ubuntu linux server. Last time I made any > changes for him was in July. Now when I go to copy anything to the > server I get the following: > > cp: cannot create directory > `/var/lib/tomcat5/backups/Infoportal_test_20111026_0936': Read-only file > system > > It looks like something must have changed, but we have not done anything > and I am pretty sure neither has he. Any thoughts? > > I am signed in as root (please don't give me a lecture) > thanks > Ann Richmond > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
