On 2017-03-03, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Gary! > > On Do, 02 Mär 2017, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2017-03-02, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > > cd ../runtime/doc; if test -z "" -a -f tags; then \ > > > mv -f tags tags.dist; fi > > > mv: cannot move ?tags? to ?tags.dist?: Permission denied > > > > I tried the mv command by itself. > > > > $ cd runtime/doc > > $ ll tags > > -rw-r--r-- 1 gary swgroup 317378 Mar 2 15:29 tags > > $ sudo mv -f tags tags.dist > > mv: cannot move ?tags? to ?tags.dist?: Permission denied > > $ mv -f tags tags.dist > > > > So I can execute the mv as myself, but not as the sudo user. As > > this used to work, I wonder if the Vim make has changed or if the > > characteristics of the sudo user on this system have changed. > > As what user is sudo running? What is the permission of the runtime/doc > directory and finally, since you already seem to have write access to > the required directory, why run with sudo?
I don't know what user sudo runs as, or what the permissions of runtime/doc are. I will find out tomorrow at work. I have to use sudo (or su) to install Vim under /usr/local. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
