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Re: "cannot change mode of file"?
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: "cannot change mode of file"? |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:45:45 -0500 (EST) |
Paul D. Smith writes:
>
> cvs commit: cannot change mode of file index.php: Operation not permitted
> cvs commit: cannot change mode of file index.php: Operation not permitted
>
> This was printed twice for essentially every file. On the off chance
> "mode" meant UNIX file mode I checked that, but it looked OK (the
> workspace file was 664 and the repository was 444--no executable bit
> change).
That's exatly what it means: chmod() on the file failed with errno set
to EPERM which, according to the man pages on my system, means that:
The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file
and the effective user ID is not the super-user.
Did you not own the files you were committing?
-Larry Jones
My life needs a rewind/erase button. -- Calvin