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Re: lynx-dev Alert!: Destination has different owner! Request denied.


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Alert!: Destination has different owner! Request denied.
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:58:21 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> I tried to move a file that has the following
> permissions:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 fredlwm fredlwm
>
> using 'm' and 'l'
>
> to a directory:
>
> drwxrwxr-x  20 root wheel
>
> I'm part of the wheel group. OK, not the same owner, but if I
> have write access, why does Lynx not move it if mv(1) did it ?
>
> Sorry if I'm overlooking any option. Did not have the time to
> go through the docs.

short:
Lynx is (by convention) paranoid about where it might want to write a
file.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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