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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: :permission denied?
- Message-ID: <1354@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 03:13:22 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.073220.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <1992Sep3.151848.23143@decuac.dec.com>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <1992Sep3.151848.23143@decuac.dec.com>, mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
- > mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
- >
- > > The command sequence works ok however I get a message back from
- > >somewhere "permission denied:"........
- > > Any idea what has happened?
- >
- > Probably something is trying to do something it hasn't got
- > permission to do. ;)
- >
-
- We encounter something similar using su (legitimately...). The command does
- what it is supposed to, but we typically get the following message:
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- /dev/ttyp2: permission denied
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- Any clues ?
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- thanks, greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
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