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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



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