New Linux Installation Question

[Budge]

Hi and thanks for the advice.  I had understood however that

-rwxr-xr-x 1 meant that user had write permissions.  I could of course change ownership but why have I not had this issue before?



On 02/09/2015 07:18 PM, artisticforge . wrote:
> hello
> If you are running /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer as anyone other than
> root and /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer is attempting to update itself the
> error you are receiving to correct. No one except root has "write"
> premissions on /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer
>
> You need to provide the exact command line that you are using that
> cause the error.
>
> it does appear that /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer is attempting to update
> itself and failing miserably
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Budge <ajebay at errichel.co.uk> wrote:
>> I have managed to mess up my RAID configuration and have taken advantage
>> to install new drives and upgrade OS so am installing GiP ab initio
>> following wiki instructions to the letter.  Two questions:-
>>
>> Is the github .../wiki/release291 the one to install?\
>>
>> I have a problem with permissions/ownership.  I have followed wiki and
>> put file in /usr/local/bin (which is in path) but when I try to run from
>> cli in bash  I get
>>
>> ERROR: /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer is not writable - aborting update
>> (maybe a package manager was used to install get_iplayer?).  I am logged
>> in correctly as user and the permissions are -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
>> 423921 Feb  9 18:16 get_iplayer, which tells me that user should be able
>> to write.  Is it an environment issue or am I just losing it?  Never had
>> this problem before.
>>
>> Budgie
>>
>>
>>
>>
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