Re: problme with cp-command

[Eric Blake]

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According to Peter Landgren on 7/5/2007 6:45 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> Have got a problem with the cp command. It signals an error:
> 
> address@hidden peter]# cp  -f qazpx.txt /tmp/qazpxtttt.txt
> cp: setting attributes for "/tmp/qazpxtttt.txt": Operationen stöds ej 
> (translates as "operation not supported")
> The file is copied, but if the cp-comamnd is in a Makefile, it exits!
> (I have made a su-command and given the root password.)

It sounds like /tmp/qazpxtttt.txt exists, and has a different owner or
permissions which make it so that you can't change the owner when acting
as yourself.  Care to list the output of:

$ ls -ld /tmp /tmp/qazpxtttt.txt
$ id

> 
> This happens when I do "make install" as root.
> 
> If I cd to the root I can do a similar:
> address@hidden /]# cp -f qazroot.txt /tmp/qazptttt.txt

Root can do whatever it wants (which is why it is dangerous to act as root
unless you know what you are doing).

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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