Linux and file creation/copying

[Bruce Easton]

Bruce Easton wrote Friday, October 03, 2008 3:47 PM
>
> Kenneth Brody wrote Friday, October 03, 2008 3:26 PM,
> >
> > Quoting Bruce Easton (Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:03:44 -0400):
> > [...]
> > > (The rest of the fp 'executables' are all filepro:group 4755,
> > > but **weirdly**, when I ran the 'setperms' program just now AFTER
> > > the testing results & error messages received that I show below,
> > > all the fp 'executables' go to 755 instead of 4755 - but in any
> > > event I get the same behavior from ddefine/fpcopy).
> >
> > You have an older version of the setperms script.  Swap the "chown" and
> > "chmod" lines so that chown is first.
> >
>
> I understand.
>
> > [... fp/lib directory ...]
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root    group  37092 Mar 30  2006 makedir
> >
> > Was it this way before running the old setperms?  It needs to be 4755,
> > not 755.
>
> The fp error messages were occurring prior to my running the
> setperms, when executables were 4755.
>
> I just fixed the setperms and re-ran and the perms look good now
> including fp/lib/makedir   (4755).
>
> But I see the post from Bill R.
> and I just found a system on 5.0.14 that we support that IS working
> (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 [Nahant Update 7]),
> so I'm going to try the makedir program from that system to
> see if it helps.  I'll post an update.  thanks all.
>
> Bruce

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Replacing the makedir solved the problem.
Thanks, Bill.

Bruce

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>
> > [...]
> > > *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
> > > Cannot open file.
> > > /appl/filepro/test/map: No such file or directory
> > >
> > >> Does the new directory get created?
> > >
> > > No - the directory for 'test' is not created.
> > >
> > >> If not, what happens if you manually
> > >> create the directory first?
> > >
> > > Then it works fine.
> >
> > That's a sign that makedir isn't able to create the directory, typically
> > because it's not root/4755, but the rest is fine.  Fix setperms
> and re-run
> > it.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > --
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> >
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