Re: setting permission for ... Permission denied

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 27 March 2012 00:05:03 Peter Johansson wrote:
> This is with coreutils 8.4:
> $ /usr/bin/install --version
> install (GNU coreutils) 8.4

that's fairly old at this point.  you should first attempt to upgrade to the 
latest version and see if the problem still exists.

> '/mnt/hpc' is a Samba share so I first thought that I lacked permission
> to write their, but that is obviously not the case because  the call
> 'install align.sh /mnt/hpc/local/bin' is successful. FWIW, chmod 755
> /mnt/hpc/local/bin/align.sh works as expected without warnings. So what
> is different between chmod and install's way of setting permission.

strace it:
        strace /usr/bin/install -c align.sh /mnt/hpc/local/bin
-mike

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